(Detail of the painting:) - Hellmouth and boat of Charon with the Cumaean Sibyl and Aeneas. (La bouche de l'enfer; Charon; Enee et la Sibylle de Cumes ; Hollenmund; Charon; Sibylle von Cumae und Aeneas).- Painting by Jacob Isaacszon Van Swanenburg. (1571-1638).Oil on canvas (c1620).- Charon is a psychopomp; the ferryman of Hades who carries souls of the newly deceased who had received the rites of burial; across the river that divided the world of the living from the world of the dead.Private collection Switzerland.2021