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

This is labelled in Overbeck as copy after the Vienna gem (here regarded as classical work), but the differences between the two suggest that either the draughtsman took great liberties or that it depicts a different gem

Artist or creator

Italian

Date

16th century

Location

Vienna, Kunsthistorisches Museum (inv. IXa 39)

Notes on photograph

Bibliographic Citation

Johannes Overbeck, Die Bildwerke zum Thebischen und Troischen Bilderkreis, Stuttgart 1857, p. 276, pl. 33, 5

Rights and Permissions

This material is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial 3.0 Unported License

Acknowledgements

Record created with the generous support of the Kress foundation

Contact

For comments or queries, please contact photographic.collect@sas.ac.uk
IIIF manifest for this object