A nearly nude, pale-skinned woman rides an oversized seashell being pulled by stylized dolphins in this horizontal painting. Four muscular, tanned men with dark, unruly curly hair surround the shell and play music. The woman sits on a seat made by twisting red coral with her body angled to our right. She turns her face up and to our left, to the sky. She has dark eyes and brows, a heart-shaped face, a cleft in her chin, and her pink lips are parted. Her auburn-brown hair appears gathered at the base of her neck and long tresses lift in the breeze over her right shoulder, to our left. A…
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The Triumph of Galatea

Bernardo Cavallino (Neapolitan, 1616 - 1656)

c. 1650

Medium
oil on canvas
Classification
Painting
Dimensions
original canvas: 148.3 × 203 cm (58 3/8 × 79 15/16 in.) ; with extensions: 152.1 × 205.1 cm (59 7/8 × 80 3/4 in.) ; framed: 178.75 × 234.32 × 15.24 cm (70 3/8 × 92 1/4 × 6 in.)
Culture
Neapolitan
Museum
National Gallery of Art, CIS-B
Credit line
Patrons' Permanent Fund
Rights
Public domain (NGA Open Access, CC0), as the museum states it.
Who can see it
Adult profiles and older: its museum's description or title mentions nudity. How works are placed

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