The Contest Between Athena and Poseidon for the Possession of Athens. Artist: Cesare Nebbia (Italian, Orvieto ca. 1536-1614 Orvieto). Dimensions: 10-3/16 x 10-3/8 in. (25.9 x 26.4 cm). Date: 1570s.As Rhoda Eitel-Porter and Alberto Satoli pointed out, this drawing relates to Cesare Nebbia's partly destroyed fresco in the "Salone della Caminata" of the Palazzo Simoncelli (Torre San Severo, near Orvieto), painted possibly in the 1570's. The drawing is the principal documentary means of reconstructing the lost portions of the frescoed composition.Airy and full of light, this carefully drawn composition portrays a subject based on Ovid's Metamorphoses (5:250-268). A council of the Classical gods (presided by Zeus and Hera at center), seated in the heavens and identifiable through their attributes, witness below the monumental scene of the nude, muscular sea-god Poseidon (at left), who has vigorously struck the ground with his trident, causing a horse to spring up, seen here rearing from a

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The Contest Between Athena and Poseidon for the Possession of Athens. Artist: Cesare Nebbia (Italian, Orvieto ca. 1536-1614 Orvieto). Dimensions: 10-3/16 x 10-3/8 in. (25.9 x 26.4 cm). Date: 1570s.As Rhoda Eitel-Porter and Alberto Satoli pointed out, this drawing relates to Cesare Nebbia's partly destroyed fresco in the "Salone della Caminata" of the Palazzo Simoncelli (Torre San Severo, near Orvieto), painted possibly in the 1570's. The drawing is the principal documentary means of reconstructing the lost portions of the frescoed composition.Airy and full of light, this carefully drawn composition portrays a subject based on Ovid's Metamorphoses (5:250-268). A council of the Classical gods (presided by Zeus and Hera at center), seated in the heavens and identifiable through their attributes, witness below the monumental scene of the nude, muscular sea-god Poseidon (at left), who has vigorously struck the ground with his trident, causing a horse to spring up, seen here rearing from a

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