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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.
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.
The classic interpretation of the work, devised by the classical scholar Winckelmann, is that the scene depicts the wedding of Peleus and Thetis, parents of the hero Achilles. A second hypothesis, formulated in the 18th century by Luigi Dutens, is that the scene is the marriage of Alexander the Great and Roxana.
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 ...
The Wedding painter's name vase, a pyxis, ca.470/460 BC. Louvre L 55. Wedding Painter is the conventional name for an ancient Greek vase painter active in Athens from circa 480 to 460 BC. He painted in the red-figure technique. His name vase is a pyxis in the Louvre depicting the wedding of Thetis and Peleus.
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Place of creation: Germany : Object history: Entered the Hermitage in 1769; acquired from the Heinrich von Brühl collection, Dresden: References: Ermitage Impérial - Catalogue de la Galerie des tableaux, VII, Ecoles Néerlandaises et Ecole Allemande, 510