The artist is Losenko
The plot is taken from Homer’s Iliad.
Zeus-in ancient Greek mythology, the god of heaven, thunder and lightning, knowing the whole world, the main of the Olympic gods. The attribute of Zeus is a shield, a bilateral ax and an eagle.
Fetida is a marine goddess, mother of the hero of the Trojan War Achilles.
Zeus wanted to marry Fetida, but Prometheus opened his prophecy that the son of Fetida would be stronger than his father, then Zeus, frightened that his son would overthrow him, granted Fetida to marry King Pelei. The picture of Losenko depicts the moment when Fetida ascended Olympus and begged Zeus to avenge Agamemnon for insulting her son Achilles (Achilles). The poetic composition of Losenko is embodied in lyrical images and glorifies love and tenderness.
The picture was made in Rome at the beginning of 1769. There is an assumption that the picture was ordered by the artist and. And. Shuvalov for the count to. G. Razumovsky. In this canvas, with its verification in the transmission of anatomy, local color, a predominance of a liner-plastic principle in modeling, researchers see one of the best creatures of the artist.
Zeus and Fetida. My museum
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