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The Feast of the Gods
Also titled Godenmaaltijd
Paulus Willemsz. van Vianen (Utrecht, ca. –ca.)
1604
- Medium
- silver (metal)
- Classification
- plaque
- Dimensions
- height 25.8 cm x width 35 cm x thickness 1 cm
- Museum
- Rijksmuseum
- Credit line
- Private gift
- Rights
- Public Domain Mark, 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
About this work
In the centre foreground is the seated figure of Saturn, with a scythe and an hourglass. His wife, Rhea, is at the far right. With their sons Jupiter (ruler of the sky), Pluto (ruler of the underworld) and Neptune (ruler of the sea) and other gods, they partake of a meal, which, however, does not seem in the least bit festive. The gloom cast over this scene clouds our understanding of its meaning.
