Feast of the Gods
probably by Alessandro Vittoria (Italian, 1525–1608)
c. 1571–78
- Medium
- bronze
- Classification
- Sculpture
- Dimensions
- Overall: 34.3 x 22.2 cm (13 1/2 x 8 3/4 in.)
- Culture
- Italy
- Museum
- Cleveland Museum of Art, European Painting and Sculpture
- Credit line
- John L. Severance Fund
- Rights
- Public domain (CC0), as the museum states it.
- Who can see it
- Teens profiles and older: its subject is for older viewers (war, death, the Passion, drink or the like). How works are placed
View at the Cleveland Museum of Art
About this work
Banquets of the gods were common literary devices in classical texts and myth, and their use here enmeshed with the desire to capture the sensuality of the body and water in motion.
