The Feast of the Gods
1514/1529 · Oil on canvas · National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC
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About this work
- Artist
- Giovanni Bellini (completed by Titian) (c. 1430–1516)
- Year
- 1514/1529
- Medium
- Oil on canvas
- Original size
- 170.2 × 188 cm
- Collection
- National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC
- Movement
- Renaissance
The gods of Olympus picnic in a wooded glade, served by nymphs and satyrs with jugs and bowls: a child Bacchus draws wine from a cask, Mercury reclines with his helmet, Jupiter drinks beside an eagle, and at the right Priapus leans over the sleeping nymph Lotis, about to be foiled by the braying of Silenus's donkey, a story from Ovid's Fasti. Bellini signed the canvas on a paper on the tub at the lower right, Giovanni Bellini of Venice, painted 1514, and was paid that year. It was the first of a series of mythological paintings for the Camerino d'alabastro of Alfonso I d'Este, Duke of Ferrara, which later included three canvases by Titian. After Bellini's death in 1516, Dosso Dossi and then Titian repainted the landscape at the left to harmonise it with Titian's work in the room. The paintings left Ferrara for Rome in 1598. This one later passed to England, was bought for the estate of Peter A. B. Widener in 1922 and entered the National Gallery of Art in Washington in 1942.
This print reproduces the whole work, uncropped, from a high-resolution scan of the original. The original is in the public domain.
Where it works
Gods and nymphs feasting in a deep green glade under a rocky hill, red, white and blue figures in a long frieze, for a dining room or living room at 24×36 in natural wood. A deep green, terracotta or warm white wall; it pairs with Bacchus and Ariadne.
Style, size & framing detail
- Style
- Renaissance painting
- Era
- 16th century (1514/1529)
- Orientation
- Portrait
- Mood
- grand
- Rooms
- living room, dining room
- Good gift for
- housewarming, art lovers
Size. We'd hang this one at 24×36. Prints at 12×18, 16×24, 24×36 in — 12×18 for a shelf, desk or a gallery-wall grid; 16×24 above a desk, console or in a hallway; 24×36 as the statement piece above a sofa or bed.
Framing. The gallery ground is part of the print, so frame it without a mat — black suits the deep tones of this period; natural wood lightens it.
Pairing. Pairs as a set of three with other famous painting prints (10% off three or more).
Details & materials
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About this design
The Madten promise
An exhibition poster
The same artwork as a gallery exhibition poster — title, artist & date typeset beneath the image on a soft ground.















