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ARCHITECTURE

France / Fontainebleau / Château / Galerie d'Ulysse (destroyed) / Compartment 7

LITERATURE

Ancient / Homer / Odyssey / Cycles / 16th century (Middle) - Fontainebleau, Galerie d'Ulysse (Primaticcio and Niccolò dell'Abate) / Preparatory drawings
Ancient / Homer / Odyssey / Book XXIII: Ulysses is reunited with Penelope / vv. 141-152: At Ulysses's command, the women bathe, and the musicians play as if for Penelope's wedding
Ancient / Homer / Odyssey / Book XXIII: Ulysses is reunited with Penelope / vv. 153-163: Ulysses is washed by Eurynome and beautified by Minerva

Further details

Artist or creator

Primaticcio, Francesco (1504-1570)

Date

16th century (middle)

Location

Stockholm, Nationalmuseum (inv. NMH 834-1863)

Notes on photograph

Bibliographic Citation

Per Bjurström, French Drawings, Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries, Stockholm 1976, no. 42

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Acknowledgements

Record created with the generous support of the Kress foundation

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