Iconography

LITERATURE

Ancient / Homer / Odyssey / Cycles / 1450 (circa) - Cracow, Wawel, Cassone (formerly Vienna, Lanckoronski collection, Apollonio di Giovanni)
Ancient / Homer / Odyssey / Book V: Ulysses leaves Calypso, is shipwrecked and washed ashore the islands of the Phaeacians / vv. 333-351: Leucothea gives Ulysses her veil to protect him in the shipwreck
Ancient / Homer / Odyssey / Book VI: Nausicaa finds the shipwrecked Ulysses / vv. 135-210: Ulysses meets Nausicaa
Ancient / Homer / Odyssey / Book VI: Nausicaa finds the shipwrecked Ulysses / vv. 316-320: Nausicaa returns with Ulysses to the city of the Phaeacians
Ancient / Homer / Odyssey / Book VIII: Ulysses is honoured with a feast by the Phaeacians / vv. 521-532: Ulysses is moved to tears by Demodocus singing about the conquest of Troy
Ancient / Homer / Odyssey / Book XIII: Ulysses is brought from the island of the Phaeaceans to Ithaca / vv. 86-92: The Phaeacians take the sleeping Ulysses to Ithaca

Further details

Second panel, centre: at the very left Ulysses's shipwreck, then Ulysses found by Nausicaa, Alcinous's banquet, Journey to Ithaca

Artist or creator

Apollonio di Giovanni (Dido Master, born 1415 or 1417, died 1465)

Date

15th century (middle)

Location

Cracow, Zamek Królewski na Wawelu, Panstwowe Zbiory Sztuki (formerly Vienna, collection Count Lanckoronski)

Notes on photograph

Bibliographic Citation

Paul Schubring, Cassoni, Truhen und Truhenbilder der italienischen Frührenaissance, Supplement, Leipzig 1923, pp. 275-276, nos. 245-252; Ellen Callmann, Apollonio di Giovanni, Oxford 1974, p. 67, no. 34

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Acknowledgements

Record created with the generous support of the Kress foundation

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