Titian and Bellini - The Feast of the Gods Art Print

An archival premium Quality Art Print of The Feast of the Gods by the artists Titian and Giovanni Bellini for sale by Brandywine General Store. The masterpiece was completed between the years 1514 and 1529 and is described in detail below from the National Gallery of Art where the painting now resides. Giovanni Bellini and Titian’s The Feast of the Gods is one of the greatest Renaissance paintings in the United States by two fathers of Venetian art. In this illustration of a scene from Ovid's Fasti, the gods, with Jupiter, Neptune, and Apollo among them, revel in a wooded pastoral setting, eating and drinking, attended by nymphs and satyrs. According to the tale, the lustful Priapus, god of fertility, stealthily lifts the gown of the sleeping nymph Lotis, as seen in the painting. A moment later, he will be foiled by the braying of Silenus' ass and the assembled deities will laugh at Priapus' misadventure. The Feast was the first in a series of mythologies, or bacchanals, commissioned b