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At the left arrival of Ulysses on Aiaia, then his comrades with animal heads, then Ulysses (protected by Mercury) encountering Circe, then taking leave from Circe (with a deity present, not according to Homer), above probably Tiresias, at the right journey to Hades, the Sirens and perhaps Polyphemus

Artist or creator

Date

1480 (circa)

Location

Notes on photograph

Bibliographic Citation

Paul Schubring, Cassoni, Truhen und Truhenbilder der italienischen Frührenaissance, Supplement, Leipzig 1923, pp. 276-277, no. 255; Ellen Callmann, Apollonio di Giovanni, Oxford 1974, pp. 17 n. 61, 86

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