Paintings by Bosch, Giorgione, Velázquez, Jordaens, Benjamin West, Joseph Wright, Ingres, Ecksersberg, Ary Scheffer and others.
Jordaens
He swam ashore naked and fell asleep in a pile of leaves, When he awoke the following, he walked in front of princess Nausicaä, and had to ask for her father’s help.
King of Ithaca, he first feigns madness to dodge going to war against Troy, but then uses his cunning and ingenuity to design the Trojan Horse and conquer the city. Runs into trouble with Polyphemus during the return journey to Ithaca.
Worn by Mars, Athena/Minerva and Bellona, it also featured in the war against Troy. It was worn by Joan of Arc, and by Lovis Corinth too.
From the foundation of Troy, the start of the war with the Judgement of Paris, the death of Achilles, the sack of Troy, and Aeneas journey to found the precursor to Rome, and on to the age of Augustus.
A survivor from Ulysses’ crew gives a brief account of the encounter between Ulysses and the Cyclops Polyphemus, and its outcome.
How expression of pain became stereotyped in narrative paintings from Caravaggio to Böcklin, a very early Rembrandt and the anguish of a ewe on the death of her lamb.
Laomedon refuses to pay the gods for helping built the walls of the first city of Troy. The Peleus marries Thetis, with a feast of the gods that sets up the Judgement of Paris.
Pitched battles at the weddings of Hippodame and Pirithous, and Andromeda and Perseus. The Trojan War resulting from the wedding of Thetis and Peleus, and turning water into wine with Veronese.
More than a dozen heroes are called to hunt a boar as big as an ox that is destroying crops and livestock. Their attempts are farcical until the young woman Atalanta impales the boar with her arrow.
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