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Bartolomeo de Giovanni, an associate of Ghirlandaio and Botticelli, earned his reputation as a painter of wedding chests. This painted panel probably adorned the front of one of these chests. The mythological theme is appropriate: Zeus decided to give Thetis (one of the Nereids, daughters of the sea god Nereus) in marriage to King Peleus. The panel depicts the procession of Thetis, who is accompanied by two cupids and preceded by a Fortune, whose sail billows with favourable winds.
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