The Triumph of Venus. The Meeting of Venus and Amphitrite, 1854 (oil on canvas)

The Triumph of Venus. The Meeting of Venus and Amphitrite (Il Trionfo di Venere. L'incontro di Venere e Anfitrite, by Francesco Podesti, 1854, 19th Century, oil on canvas, 172 x 246 cm Whole artwork view. The scene represents a group a mythological characters deep in a marine setting; nereid Aphitrites is represented faced backwards, standing up in front of the composition, where stands out Venus who sits on a large shell sustained by tritons; up and down, the scene is completed with a series of puttos, depicted in different attitudes; some of them are playing with sea animals; others throw arrows while flying; two of them bear the soft pink veil belonging to the goddess, which is blown up by the wind Francesco Podesti National Gallery of Modern and Contemporary Art-GNAM