Eustache Le Sueur (French, 1616–1655) Classically proportioned sea gods and goddesses, partially clad in intensely colored drapery, form a dramatic procession against a light blue sky. This painting illustrates an episode in Francesco Colonna's
Hypnerotomachia Poliphili (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.
Although it was first published in 1499, Colonna's book enjoyed immense popularity in seventeenth-century France.
Marine Gods Paying Homage to Love is one of Eustache Le Sueur's eight canvases illustrating the
Hypnerotomachia Poliphili; it was painted as a model for a Gobelins tapestry that was never executed.
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