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The official position taken by the Wikimedia Foundation is that "faithful reproductions of two-dimensional public domain works of art are public domain".This photographic reproduction is therefore also considered to be in the public domain in the United States.
English: The Wedding of Thetis and Peleus by Hendrick van Balen and Jan Brueghel the Elder, ca. 1630. The original image was photographed and uploaded by Henry Townsend (user:Henrytow). This version of the image has been cropped to remove the frame and white-balanced.
Peleus; Usage on vi.wikipedia.org Thetis (thần thoại) Peleus; Usage on www.wikidata.org Q27977960; Wikidata:WikiProject sum of all paintings/Collection/Hermitage Museum; Wikidata:WikiProject sum of all paintings/Catalog/Ermitage Imperial - Catalogue de la Galerie des tableaux, VII, Ecole Neerlandaises et Ecole Allemand
As wedding presents, Poseidon gave Peleus two immortal horses: Balius and Xanthus, Hephaestus gave him a knife, Aphrodite a bowl with an embossed Eros, Hera a chlamys, Athena a flute, Nereus a basket of the divine salt which has an irresistible virtue for overeating, appetite and digestion and Zeus gave Thetis, as present, the wings of Arke.
Peleus held fast. Subdued, she then consented to marry him. Thetis is the mother of Achilles by Peleus, who became king of the Myrmidons. According to classical mythology, the wedding of Thetis and Peleus was celebrated on Mount Pelion, outside the cave of Chiron, and
The Feast of the Gods, Giovanni Bellini and Titian (1514–1529), also with Priapus and Lotis, also bottom right. One of the earliest depictions is a cassone panel by Bartolomeo di Giovanni from the 1490s (Louvre, illustrated); this is paired with a panel of the Procession of Thetis, another common way of depicting a wedding; artists were unsure what form an actual Olympian wedding ceremony ...
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The painting represents a banquet taking place on Mount Olympus to celebrate the marriage of Thetis, a nereid, and Peleus, king of Phthia, in which many gods from Greco-Roman mythology participate. In the centre, Apollo is crowned and holds a lyre .