Neptune and Pluto Drawing Lots for their Kingdoms, 1536-1538 (oil on board)

Neptune and Pluto Drawing Lots for their Kingdoms (Nettuno e Plutone si spartiscono i tre regni), by Luca from Faenza and Lucas de la Haye, designed by Giulio Romano, 1536-1538, 16th Century, oil on board, 111 x 133 x 2,5 cm Whole artwork view. Painting with bright colours about the brothers Jupiter, Pluto and Neptune, depicted as three teenagers with naked bodies, scantily covered by mantles, around a silver vase in the center of the scene; the three divinities are drawing lots for skies, seas and underworld, symbolically represented in the background landscape Luca da Faenza, Lucas de la Haye, Giulio Romano Romano Freddi Collection on loan to the Palazzo Ducale of Mantua