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Triumph of Faith: Neptune
Also titled Triomf van het geloof: Neptunus
Maarten van Heemskerck (Heemskerk, 1498–1574)
c. 1550 - c. 1560
- Medium
- panel, oil paint (paint)
- Classification
- grisaille
- Dimensions
- height 46 cm (painted surface) x width 14 cm (painted surface)
- Museum
- Rijksmuseum
- 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
Neptune, recognizable by his trident and the seahorse, was the mighty god of water and the sea. Heemskerck placed him in the set devoted to the triumph of faith. After all, water plays an essential role in baptism, the moment of initiation in the Christian faith. The threedimensionality of this figure is particularly successful: his right hand really seems to project out of the panel.
