Iconography

ARCHITECTURE

France / Fontainebleau / Château / Galerie d'Ulysse (destroyed) / Compartment 12

GODS AND MYTHS

Hades (underworld) / Miscellaneous
Hercules / Myths / Death and apotheosis / Hercules in Tartarus
Minos / Various activities / Minos as judge in Hades
Orion / Myths / Orion hunting in the underworld
Sisyphus
Tantalus / Punishment
Tityus / Tityus in Tartarus, having his liver eaten by a vulture

LITERATURE

Ancient / Homer / Odyssey / Cycles / 16th century (Middle) - Fontainebleau, Galerie d'Ulysse (Primaticcio and Niccolò dell'Abate) / Copies by Theodor van Thulden
Ancient / Homer / Odyssey / Book XI: Ulysses recounts his adventures (Journey to the Underworld) / vv. 568-571: Ulysses sees Minos as judge over the dead
Ancient / Homer / Odyssey / Book XI: Ulysses recounts his adventures (Journey to the Underworld) / vv. 572-575: Ulysses sees Orion hunting animals with his club
Ancient / Homer / Odyssey / Book XI: Ulysses recounts his adventures (Journey to the Underworld) / vv. 576-581: Ulysses sees Tityus with vultures devouring his liver
Ancient / Homer / Odyssey / Book XI: Ulysses recounts his adventures (Journey to the Underworld) / vv. 582-592: Ulysses sees the starving Tantalus
Ancient / Homer / Odyssey / Book XI: Ulysses recounts his adventures (Journey to the Underworld) / vv. 593-600: Ulysses sees Sisyphos with the rock
Ancient / Homer / Odyssey / Book XI: Ulysses recounts his adventures (Journey to the Underworld) / vv. 601-627: Ulysses speaks to Hercules

Further details

At the top left Orion, beneath Tantalus, further to the right Sisyphus (top) and Tityus (bottom), followed by Minus, at the right Hercules addressing Ulysses

Artist or creator

Thulden, Theodor van (1606-1669) after
Primaticcio, Francesco (1504-1570)

Date

1633

Location

.., Blank

Associated persons

Ian Jones (Photographer (digital))

Book, text or document (source of image)

Thulden, Theodor van. Les Travaux d'Ulysse desseignez par le Sieur de Sainct Martin, de la façon qu'ils se voyent dans la maison Royalle de Fontaine-bleau (2nd edition). Paris (L'Anglois). 1640. Unspecified: 24.

Notes on photograph

Bibliographic Citation

Hollstein's Dutch and Flemish Etchings, Engravings and Woodcuts, ca. 1450-1700, vol. 30, Amsterdam 1986, p. 117, H. 62

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Record created with the generous support of the Kress foundation

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