"The Feast of the Gods" is a master work of art created by an artist named Giovanni Bellini. This piece of art is an oil painting created during the Italian Renaissance in 1514 in Italy. The painting can now be found at the National Gallery of Art in Washington D.C. This painting used multiple elements of art, principle of designs, and has a historical meaning behind it.
The Feast of the Gods is an oil painting. During the time of the creation of this painting pigments available to artist were pigments such as ultramarine, lead-tin-yellow, malachite, verdigris and vermilion. Ultramarine is a deep blue pigment which was originally made by grinding lapis lazuli(deep blue stone) into a powder. Lead-tin-yellow is a yellow pigment also known as "Yellow of Old Masters". Malachite is a copper carbonate hydroxide mineral. Verdigris is a green pigment made through a process which that occurs when copper, brass, or bronze, is exposed to air over a period of time.Vermilion is a red pigment made from a powdered mineral called cinnabar. A couple examples of these materials used in the painting are the sky, clouds, and the trees. In the painting materials used to create the sky were Ultramarine and Lead white. To create the clouds Bellini used three different layers such as thin blue (ultramarine), Lead-tin-yellow, and lead white. …show more content…
Lotis is the daughter of Neptune. In the painting there is a group of people at a Festival in honor of Liber and in the painting it can be seen that Priapus who is a protector of livestock is attempting to rape Lotis while she is sleep. The story states that after Lotis woke up from the cries of Silenus, she ran off and left Priapus in embarrassment as everyone woke up and became aware of his intentions. There are 18 people show in this work of art, Silenus with his donkey, his ward Bacchus as a boy, Silvanus, Mercury, a satyr, Jupiter, Cybele, Pan, Neptune, Ceres, Apollo, Priapus,
The Feast of the Gods is an oil painting. During the time of the creation of this painting pigments available to artist were pigments such as ultramarine, lead-tin-yellow, malachite, verdigris and vermilion. Ultramarine is a deep blue pigment which was originally made by grinding lapis lazuli(deep blue stone) into a powder. Lead-tin-yellow is a yellow pigment also known as "Yellow of Old Masters". Malachite is a copper carbonate hydroxide mineral. Verdigris is a green pigment made through a process which that occurs when copper, brass, or bronze, is exposed to air over a period of time.Vermilion is a red pigment made from a powdered mineral called cinnabar. A couple examples of these materials used in the painting are the sky, clouds, and the trees. In the painting materials used to create the sky were Ultramarine and Lead white. To create the clouds Bellini used three different layers such as thin blue (ultramarine), Lead-tin-yellow, and lead white. …show more content…
Lotis is the daughter of Neptune. In the painting there is a group of people at a Festival in honor of Liber and in the painting it can be seen that Priapus who is a protector of livestock is attempting to rape Lotis while she is sleep. The story states that after Lotis woke up from the cries of Silenus, she ran off and left Priapus in embarrassment as everyone woke up and became aware of his intentions. There are 18 people show in this work of art, Silenus with his donkey, his ward Bacchus as a boy, Silvanus, Mercury, a satyr, Jupiter, Cybele, Pan, Neptune, Ceres, Apollo, Priapus,