Giovanni Bellini and Titian - The Feast of the Gods 1516-1529
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The Feast of the Gods 1516-1529
170x188cm oil on canvas
National Gallery of Art Washington, Washington DC, United States
The image is only being used for informational and educational purposes
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From National Gallery of Art Washington:
Giovanni Bellini and Titian’s The Feast of the Gods is one of the greatest Renaissance paintings in the United States by two fathers of Venetian art. In this illustration of a scene from Ovid's Fasti, the gods, with Jupiter, Neptune, and Apollo among them, revel in a wooded pastoral setting, eating and drinking, attended by nymphs and satyrs. According to the tale, the lustful Priapus, god of fertility, stealthily lifts the gown of the sleeping nymph Lotis, as seen in the painting. A moment later, he will be foiled by the braying of Silenus' ass and the assembled deities will laugh at Priapus' misadventure.