Destruction of Niobe's Children Animals almost as if by accident

almost as if by accident

is recorded in an engraving by E

or in Benjamin Wilson's so-called 'Peg Woffington' in the Garrick Club

one after the other he swallowed all five of the children he had fathered with Rhea

The events around the birth and nurture of the infant Jupiter are described by four ancient Greek and Latin poets: Hesiod

Destruction of Niobe's Children Animals almost as if by accidentOnofri was a pupil in Rome of Gaspard Dughet, whose style he imitated with great success. In 1689 he moved to Florence to work for prince Ferdinando de' Medici. The scene shows the moment in Ovid's Metamorphoses VI when Apollo and Diana slay all of Niobe's fourteen children to avenge their mother Leto, to whom Niobe has declared herself superior on account of her fecundity.