The painter chose a landscape of the roman campagna as the setting. Alongside paris, who had lived here unrecognized since his birth as a boy, he was confronted with the three goddesses hera (power), athena (wisdom) and aphrodite (love), all of whom claim to be the most beautiful. The goddess eris had thought up the vain question out of revenge to sow discord between them because she had not been invited to the wedding of peleus and thetis. It now had to be answered by the son of the gods. Paris chose aphrodite, love. Nothing now stood in the way of his admission into the trojan royal family. Object Type: painting. Genre: mythological painting. Date: between 1645 and 1646. Dimensions: height: 112.3 cm (44.2 in); width: 149.5 cm (58.8 in). Medium: oil on canvas. Collection: National Gallery of Art. Claude Lorrain (1600 - 1682), The Judgment of Paris, 1645-1646, oil on canvas. National Gallery of Art, Washingto
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