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Italy / Florence / Palazzo Vecchio / Studiolo di Francesco I de' Medici

LITERATURE

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
Ancient / Homer / Odyssey / Book X: Ulysses recounts his adventures (Aeolus, Laestrygonians, Circe) / vv. 275-308 (also Ovid, Metamorphoses, XIV, 290-292): Mercury gives Ulysses the herb Moly

Further details

Preparatory drawing for a painting in the studiolo of Francesco de' Medici

Artist or creator

Straet, Jan van der (Giovanni Stradano, Johannes Stradanus) (1523-1605)

Date

1570

Location

Windsor, Royal Library (inv. RL 12969)

Notes on photograph

Bibliographic Citation

C. White and C. Crawley, The Dutch and Flemish Drawings at Windsor Castle, Cambridge 1994, no. 143

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Acknowledgements

Record created with the generous support of the Kress foundation

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