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ARCHITECTURE

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

LITERATURE

Ancient / Homer / Odyssey / Cycles / 16th century (Middle) - Fontainebleau, Galerie d'Ulysse (Primaticcio and Niccolò dell'Abate) / Preparatory drawings
Ancient / Homer / Odyssey / Book XVII: Ulysses, disguised as a beggar, returns to his palace / vv. 360-364: Minerva commands Ulysses to go inside and beg from the suitors
Ancient / Homer / Odyssey / Book XVII: Ulysses, disguised as a beggar, returns to his palace / vv. 365-369: Ulysses goes round the suitors and begs
Ancient / Homer / Odyssey / Book XVII: Ulysses, disguised as a beggar, returns to his palace / vv. 369-408: Melanthius, Eumaeus, Telemachus and Antinous discuss about what to do with the beggar Ulysses

Further details

Artist or creator

Primaticcio, Francesco (1504-1570)

Date

16th century (middle)

Location

Stockholm, Nationalmuseum (inv. NMH 829-1863)

Notes on photograph

Bibliographic Citation

Per Bjurström, French Drawings, Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries, Stockholm 1976, no. 37

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Nationalmuseum Stockholm

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Acknowledgements

Record created with the generous support of the Kress foundation

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