Rembrandt van Rijn - Bellona 1633
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Bellona 1633
127x98cm oil/canvas
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, United States
The image is only being used for informational and educational purposes
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From Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York:
Rembrandt’s sober and powerful depiction of Bellona, the Roman goddess of war, was perhaps intended to suggest the new Dutch Republic’s readiness to repel foreign forces. Images of Mars and his sister Bellona occasionally decorated the headquarters of civic guard companies. The shield, with its frightful face of Medusa, was added at a late stage of work, probably in response to seeing a version of Rubens's well-known painting of a severed Medusa's head.