Saturn Devouring His Son | Peter Paul Rubens | 1636 15th Century Queen of the Night (1931)

Queen of the Night (1931) by Marjorie Miller exemplifies the elegance and refinement of the Art Deco period

eats each one upon their birth

with the ruined abbey serving as a reminder of the transience of all things and the power of nature

portrays a solitary scholar immersed in study within a richly detailed Gothic interior

Saturn Devouring His Son | Peter Paul Rubens | 1636 15th Century Queen of the Night (1931)"Saturn Devouring His Son," by Peter Paul Rubens, depicts the mythological event where Saturn, fearing that he would be overthrown by one of his children, eats each one upon their birth. The artwork is a dramatic and dark representation of this tale from Roman mythology. It shows the powerful, muscular form of Saturn in a twisted pose, his mouth clamped over the body of his unfortunate offspring, whose limp form and anguished expression evoke both