Sujet

Marine Gods Paying Homage to Love, about 1636-1638. Creator: Eustache Le Sueur.

Légende

Marine Gods Paying Homage to Love, about 1636-1638. Classically proportioned sea gods and goddesses, partially clad in intensely coloured drapery, form a dramatic procession against a light blue sky. This painting illustrates an episode in Francesco Colonna's Hypnerotomachia Poliphil (Strife of Love in a Dream of Polyphilus), an extravagant Renaissance tale of a dream-journey through antiquity. To the left, the lovers Polyphilus and Polia are ferried to Cythera, the island of love. The sea goddess Amphitrite, reclining in a shell at the lower right, and Neptune, seated high on a shell and holding his triton, watch the boat depart from amid a crowd of figures.

Crédit

Photo12/Heritage Images/Heritage Art

Notre référence

HRM24A63_129

Model release

NA

Property release

NA

Licence

Droits gérés

Format disponible

49,3Mo (2,0Mo) / 42,0cm x 29,4cm / 4960 x 3472 (300dpi)

Mots clés

love religious arts painting country French France religion marine art book color dolphin dramatic maritime Greece deity deities gods God Neptune Renaissance location century antiquity artwork literature concept mythology roman mythology ionian islands antiquities goddess 17th century poseidon Colour aquatic life drapery nymph homage seventeenth century Amphitrite Nereid TGN Eustache Le Sueur Eustach Lesueur Eustache Lesueur Le Seur 1630s sea nymph Sueur Eustache Le La Soeur Eustache Lesueur Eustache sea god Cythera God of the sea Sea Gods Kythira Painting Heritage Art god of sea sea goddess Hypnerotomachia Poliphili Poliphilo's Strife of Love in a Dream The Dream of Poliphilus oil paint (paint) Canvas (Textile Material)