Edgar Wind and Giovanni Bellini’s ‘Feast of the Gods’: An Iconographic ‘Enfant Terrible’

Jaynie Anderson
University of Melbourne
https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5464-781X

Volume 2, April 2022

Abstract
Since its creation, Giovanni Bellini’s late masterpiece The Feast of the Gods, has never been an easy
painting to understand. When Edgar Wind published his monograph in 1948, it received an uneven
critical reception. Wind’s interpretation of the painting will be re-evaluated in relation to past and
present scholarship, with insights from Wind’s papers at the Bodleian Library, Oxford, as well as
other archives. Inevitably as an editor of two volumes of his writings it is partly autobiographical.

Keywords
Giovanni Bellini; Titian; Alfonso D’Este; Kenneth Clark; National Gallery of Art, Washington

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