The Feast of the Gods

Giovanni Bellini

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 exhibition-poster edition shows the whole work beneath original typography set in-house. 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: Exhibition poster of a Renaissance painting
Era: 16th century (1514/1529)
Orientation: Portrait
Palette: cream & beige
Mood: grand
Rooms: living room, dining room, hallway or entryway
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. Exhibition posters sit best in a slim black frame with no mat — the typeset margin is the mat.

Pairing. Pairs as a set of three with other famous painting prints (10% off three or more).

Details & materials

• Exhibition poster — original, drawn in-house • Heavyweight matte fine-art paper, giclée printed at 300 DPI • Sizes: 12×18, 16×24, 24×36 in; every size also available framed • Framed option: wood frame in black or natural wood, 12 mm wide and 22 mm deep, with a plexiglass front and no mat; the print is mounted inside and the frame's outside measures the listed size • Made to order; colours may vary slightly from screen

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Printed after you order at the facility nearest you, then shipped. Standard delivery is free and takes 4–9 business days from order to door in the US, UK and EU (up to 10 elsewhere); Express takes 4–6 business days. Because each print is made to order we don't take change-of-mind returns, but if it arrives damaged or flawed we'll reprint or refund it — no return needed. Full policy →

Is this the whole painting, or a crop?

The whole work, uncropped. The exhibition-poster edition sets the complete image above typography designed in-house.

Is The Feast of the Gods in the public domain?

Yes. Giovanni Bellini (completed by Titian) (c. 1430–1516) died more than 70 years ago and the work was published before 1929, so the painting itself is public domain. This print is a reproduction made from a high-resolution scan of the original, which is held by National Gallery of Art.

What is it printed on?

Heavyweight matte fine-art paper with pigment inks, made to order in 12×18, 16×24 and 24×36 inches; every size is also offered framed in black or natural wood, with plexiglass and no mat. Colours are matched to the scan, not brightened.

When was The Feast of the Gods painted, and in what medium?

The Feast of the Gods dates from 1514/1529 and was made in oil on canvas; the original measures 170.2 × 188 cm.

What size works above a sofa or bed?

Across a three-seat sofa or a queen bed, 24×36 is the size that reads as one statement piece; 16×24 suits a narrower wall or a pair. For The Feast of the Gods we'd choose 24×36.

About this design

A museum-exhibition poster of Giovanni Bellini's The Feast of the Gods — the Feast of the Gods — the Olympian gods at a woodland picnic with satyrs and nymphs, the landscape completed by Titian — shown whole and uncropped beneath gallery typography. Bellini: Light of the Venetian Renaissance, styled as a blockbuster exhibition print. A gallery-style exhibition poster: a celebrated public-domain artwork shown whole and uncropped beneath original exhibition typography set in-house — printed to order on heavyweight matte fine-art paper. Every size is offered unframed or framed in black or natural wood. Part of the Madten Exhibition Posters Collection. — — — Printed to order and shipped by our production partner, Gelato.

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