The Castration of Uranus (detail)
The Castration of Uranus is an episode in Greek mythology. It was famously painted [1] (c. 1560) in a fresco by Giorgio Vasari and Cristofano Gherardi located in the Sala di Cosimo I in the Palazzo Vecchio. In this myth Uranus is castrated by his son Cronus. The testicles falling into the sea caused the birth of Aphrodite.