Iconography

LITERATURE

Ancient / Homer / Odyssey / Cycles / 1450 (circa) - Cracow, Wawel, Cassone (formerly Vienna, Lanckoronski collection, Apollonio di Giovanni)
Ancient / Homer / Odyssey / Book XII: Ulysses recounts his adventures (Elpenor, Sirens, Scylla and Charybdis, Cattle of Sol) / vv. 181-191: Ulysses (bound to the mast) and his companions (with their ears stuffed) pass the Sirens

Further details

Second panel, left half

Artist or creator

Apollonio di Giovanni (Dido Master, born 1415 or 1417, died 1465)

Date

15th century (middle)

Location

Cracow, Zamek Królewski na Wawelu, Panstwowe Zbiory Sztuki (formerly Vienna, collection Count Lanckoronski)

Notes on photograph

Bibliographic Citation

Tervarent, Les énigmes de l'art, Paris 1938ff., vol. 3, fig. 14 (erroneously identified with the Liverpool Cassone)

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Acknowledgements

Record created with the generous support of the Kress foundation

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