Abstract
The tide of Dr. Wind's book, “Bellini's Feast of the Gods,”1 is modest to the point of being misleading. Its subject is in fact the reinterpretation of two closely related artistic productions executed for two closely related art patrons of the Renaissance: the decorations of the studio of Isabella d'Este Gonzaga in Mantua and of that of her brother, Alfonso d'Este in Ferrara. Bellini's painting forms the connecting link between the earlier studio of Isabella and the somewhat later studio of Alfonso. Wind conjures up the past with a magic wand. He succeeds in convincing the reader of the correctness of his thesis and, what is most captivating, the book reads like a thrilling novel. So at last, here is a scholarly book that holds its reader enthralled from cover to cover.
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