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Description: | Signed: yes Description: In this painting Lucas Van Uden represented an episode from Homer's Odyssey in a fairly literal copy of Peter Paul Rubens's depiction of the same subject, which is now in Florence. Ulysses hides behind a bush after being shipwrecked on the Phaecian shore. Naked and exhausted, he addresses Nausicaa, daughter of King Alcinous, while she washes her clothes in the river surrounded by her attendants. The goddess Athena intercedes on behalf of the hero in front of Zeus, who is seated among the clouds above. Alcionous's palace and a distant town appear as part of the mountainous landscape in the background. | Subjects: | mythology (Ulysses Athena); literature (Homer Odyssey); landscape Zeus Nausicaa | Source: | Vads | Creator: | Artist: Uden, Lucas van (Flemish painter, draftsman and printmaker, 1595-1672) Æ | Identifier: | http://www.vads.ac.uk/large.php?uid=9038... | Go to resource |
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