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The Feast of the Gods (French: Le Festin des dieux) is a painting by the Dutch painter Jan van Bijlert, created around 1635–1640. It is in the Musée Magnin in Dijon , France. It is one of a number of pictures in western art to depict the feast of the Gods , in this case at the marriage of Thetis and Peleus , with Bacchus in the foreground ...
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 ...
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 ...
Dionysus named the ancient city of Nicaea after her. [270] In Nonnus's Dionysiaca, Eros made Dionysus fall in love with Aura, a virgin companion of Artemis, as part of a ploy to punish Aura for having insulted Artemis. Dionysus used the same trick as with Nicaea to get her fall asleep, tied her up, and then raped her.
Bacchus (c. 1596) is an oil painting by Italian Baroque master Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio (1571–1610) commissioned by Cardinal Del Monte. The painting shows a youthful Bacchus reclining in classical fashion with grapes and vine leaves in his hair, fingering the drawstring of his loosely draped robe. On a stone table in front of him is ...
Despite the Olympics artistic director Thomas Jolly affirming that he was inspired by Jan van Bijlert’s Feast of Dionysus painting, the Vatican has now joined the voices deploring the “offense.”
The Caravaggesque style of van Bijlert's early paintings shows itself in the use of strong chiaroscuro, the cutting off of the picture plane to create a close-up image and the realism of the representation. Van Bijlert continued to paint in this style throughout the 1620s.
Dutch art historian Walther Schoonenberg agreed, explaining on X that Apollo, god of the sun, was recognizable by Butch’s halo, as was Dionysus, god of wine and feasts, by the grapes and ...