Iconography

LITERATURE

Ancient / Homer / Odyssey / Cycles / -1560 (circa) - Chesterfield, Hardwick Hall, and elsewhere (Brussels Tapestries) / Copies
Ancient / Homer / Odyssey / Book IX: Ulysses recounts his adventures (Cicones, Lotophages, Polyphemus) / vv. 468-490: Ulysses, onboard of his ship, taunts Polyphemus who hurls the summit of the mountain at him

Further details

This composition seems to survive only in this 17th-century copy, not in the original series

Artist or creator

Brussels after
Coxie, Michiel (1499-1592)

Date

1650 (circa) - 1560

Location

Madrid, Patrimonio nacional

Notes on photograph

Bibliographic Citation

Marcel Roethlisberger, The Ulysses Tapestries at Hardwick Hall, Gazette de Beaux-Arts, February 1976, pp. 111-125

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Acknowledgements

Record created with the generous support of the Kress foundation

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