#peleus

THE WEDDING OF PELEUS AND THETIS

This month we’re going to take a look at Classical mythology and history and it’s reception in later art !!!

A scene super popular in Archiac Greek pottery, the subject of Joachim Anthonisz Wtewael’s painting The Wedding of Peleus and Thetis in 1612.

Check out the Clark art gallery for more info

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I felt in a trance. He had been trained, a little, by his father. The rest was—what? Divine? This was more of the gods than I had ever seen in my life. He made it look beautiful, this sweating, hacking art of ours. I understood why his father did not let him fight in front of the others. How could any ordinary man take pride in his own skill when there was this in the world?

~patroclus, the song of achilles