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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.
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
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 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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