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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

Further details

Artist or creator

Carracci, Annibale (1560-1609) (attributed)

Date

16th century (late) - 17th century (early)

Location

Windsor, Royal Library (inv. RL 02210)

Notes on photograph

Bibliographic Citation

Rudolf Wittkower, The drawings of the Carracci in the collection of Her Majesty the Queen at Windsor Castle, London 1952, p. 156, no. 389

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Record created with the generous support of the Kress foundation

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