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Ancient / Homer / Odyssey / Cycles / - 1640 (circa) - Tapestries and preliminary sketches (Jacob Jordaens) / Ulysses in the Cave of Polyphemus
Ancient / Homer / Odyssey / Book IX: Ulysses recounts his adventures (Cicones, Lotophages, Polyphemus) / vv. 415-461: Ulysses and his comrades bind themselves at the belly of Polyphemus's sheep and so escape

Further details

Oil sketch for a tapestry, the larger modello is Moscow, Pushkin Museum

Artist or creator

Jordaens, Jacob (1593-1678)

Date

1630 (circa) - 1635

Location

Lawrence, KS, Spencer Museum of Art (University of Kansas) (inv. 1970.0009)

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Spencer Museum of Art

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Acknowledgements

Record created with the generous support of the Kress foundation

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