Feast of the Gods (c. 1571–78): Art, History and Details

Feast of the Gods (c. 1571–78) is in the Cleveland Museum of Art collection. The museum's creator attribution is Alessandro Vittoria (Italian, 1525–1608).

The work and its context

The museum's open-access catalogue describes the work:

Banquets of the gods were common literary devices in classical texts and myth, and their use here enmeshed with the desire to capture the sensuality of the body and water in motion.

Object facts

• Title: Feast of the Gods
• Date: c. 1571–78
• Creator attribution: Alessandro Vittoria (Italian, 1525–1608)
• Culture: Italy
• Type: Sculpture
• Technique: bronze
• Dimensions: Overall: 34.3 x 22.2 cm (13 1/2 x 8 3/4 in.)
• Collection: Sculpture
• Department: European Painting and Sculpture
• Accession number: 1952.464

Collection credit

John L. Severance Fund

Further reading listed by the museum

• Francis, Henry Sayles. Venetian Tradition: Catalogue of the Exhibition. [Cleveland, Ohio]: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1956. Published as: The Nuptials of Peleus and Thetis
• The Cleveland Museum of Art. The Cleveland Museum of Art Handbook. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1958.
• The Cleveland Museum of Art. Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art/1966. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1966.

View the collection record

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