Iconography

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

The iconography of this scene is not clear, it could be Ulysses, as a traveller, and the revelling suitors. This is now regarded as a 16th-century work, but it may be based on a classical model

Artist or creator

Italian

Date

16th century

Location

Vienna, Kunsthistorisches Museum (inv. IXa 39)

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Acknowledgements

Record created with the generous support of the Kress foundation

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