| The Feast of the Gods | |
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| Italian: Il festino degli dei | |
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| Artist | Giovanni Bellini and Titian |
| Year | 1514 (Titian's additions in 1529) |
| Medium | Oil on canvas |
| Dimensions | 170 cm × 188 cm (67 in × 74 in) |
| Location | National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C. |
The Feast of the Gods (Italian: Il festino degli dei) is an oil painting by the Italian Renaissance master Giovanni Bellini, with substantial additions in stages to the left and center landscape by Dosso Dossi and Titian. It is one of the few mythological pictures by the Venetian artist. Completed in 1514, it was his last major work. It is now in the National Gallery of Art in Washington D.C., which calls it "one of the greatest Renaissance paintings in the United States".[1]
The painting is the first major depiction of the subject of the "Feast of the Gods" in Renaissance art, which was to remain in currency until the end of Northern Mannerism over a century later.[2] It has several similarities to another, much less sophisticated, treatment painted by the Florentine artist Bartolomeo di Giovanni in the 1490s, now in the Louvre.[3]
- ^ NGA "Overview"
- ^ Bull, 342–43
- ^ Bartolomeo di Giovanni's painting in the Louvre