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LITERATURE

Ancient / Homer / Odyssey / Census of Antique Art Known to the Renaissance / Unknown or lost Prototypes / Gem probably showing Ulysses as guest of Eumaeus
Ancient / Homer / Odyssey / Book XIV: Ulysses is welcomed by Eumaeus / vv. 74-110: Eumaeus slaughters two piglets and offers them to Ulysses

Further details

After a gem

Artist or creator

Franco, Battista (c1510-1561)

Date

16th century (middle)

Location

London, British Museum (Dept. of Prints and Drawings) (inv. Ff,1.22)

Notes on photograph

Bibliographic Citation

Bernard de Montfaucon, L'antiquité expliquée et représentée en figures, vol. II, pt. I, Paris, 1719, pl. 90, fig. 1 (as scene of sacrifice)

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Acknowledgements

Record created with the generous support of the Kress foundation

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