Iconography

LITERATURE

Ancient / Homer / Odyssey / Cycles / 16th century (early) - Panels by the Master of the Johnson Assumption of the Magdalen
Ancient / Homer / Odyssey / Book X: Ulysses recounts his adventures (Aeolus, Laestrygonians, Circe) / Aeolus forces the winds into the skins
Ancient / Homer / Odyssey / Book X: Ulysses recounts his adventures (Aeolus, Laestrygonians, Circe) / vv. 17-24: Aeolus give Ulysses twelve skins containing winds
Ancient / Homer / Odyssey / Book X: Ulysses recounts his adventures (Aeolus, Laestrygonians, Circe) / vv. 28-20: Ulysses and his men sail driven by Zephyr
Ancient / Homer / Odyssey / Book X: Ulysses recounts his adventures (Aeolus, Laestrygonians, Circe) / vv. 121-132: The Laestrygonians sink all ship apart from one, on which Ulysses escapes
Ancient / Homer / Odyssey / Book X: Ulysses recounts his adventures (Aeolus, Laestrygonians, Circe) / vv. 237-243 (also Ovid, Metamorphoses, XIV, 278-286): Circe touches Ulysses's companions with her rod, turning them into pigs

Further details

The museum website refers to a third panel, showing the return of Ulysses

Artist or creator

Master of the Johnson Assumption of the Magdalen (active early 16th century)
anonymous

Date

16th century (early)

Location

Poughkeepsie (N.Y.), Vassar College, Frances Lehman Loeb Art Center (inv. 1917.1.3.b)

Notes on photograph

Bibliographic Citation

Kate Denny McKnight, The Ulysses Panels by Piero di Cosimo at Vassar College, Art Bulletin 6,4 (1924), pp. 99-102

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Acknowledgements

Record created with the generous support of the Kress foundation

Contact

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