The Birth of Venus

The Triumph of Neptune and Amphitrite (or Birth of Venus) by Nicolas Poussin, painted in 1635 or 1636, is a painting housed in Philadelphia in the Philadelphia Museum of Art. It is in oil on canvas (114,4 x 146,6 cm) and shows a group of figures in the sea near a beach, with putti flying over their heads.

This mythological scene clearly depicts Poseidon (or Neptune to the Romans), bearded and muscular, with four horses and a trident, to the left. But it is not clear whether the central female figure, sitting on a shell boat, is intended as Venus, Poseidon's wife Amphitrite, or Galatea.

It seems that the oldest recorded title is il trionfo di Nettunno by Giovanni Pietro Bellori (d. 1698). The matter was the subject of considerable scholarly debate in the 1960s, and Anthony Blunt concluded that Poussin was working on ideas for all these subjects, and the painting "bears the marks of the oth…

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