Trojan War Gallery

Thetis Bringing the Armor to Achilles, 1804 (oil on canvas)

XOS1766336 Thetis Bringing the Armor to Achilles, 1804 (oil on canvas) by West, Benjamin (1738-1820); 68.6x50.8 cm; Los Angeles County Museum of Art, CA, USA; (add.info.: Patroclus is killed in battle by Hector who takes Achilles armour which he is wearing. Thetis brings her son new armour (made by Hephaestus) when Achilles is overcome with grief for his friend.); American, out of copyright

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A Scene from the Trojan Wars (oil on canvas)

990285 A Scene from the Trojan Wars (oil on canvas) by Calliano, Rafaelle (1785-1824); 75x135.6 cm; Private Collection; (add.info.: A Scene from the Trojan Wars. Antonio Rafaelle Calliano (1785-1824). Oil on canvas. 75 x 135.6cm. The picture would appear to represent the point when Hector and Paris drive the Greeks back to their camp and ships. Venus is shown in the sky in support of the Trojans who wear the Phyrgian helmets.); Photo A© Christie's Images; Italian, out of copyright

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The sirens, 1929 (litho)

3060298 The sirens, 1929 (litho) by Wyeth, Newell Convers (1882-1945); Private Collection; (add.info.: Published in The Odyssey of Homer by George Herbert Palmer in 1929;
The Odyssey is one of two major ancient Greek epic poems attributed to Homer. It is, in part, a sequel to the Iliad, the other work ascribed to Homer. The poem is fundamental to the modern Western canon, and is the second oldest extant work of Western literature, the Iliad being the oldest. Scholars believe it was composed near the end of the 8th century BC, somewhere in Ionia, the Greek coastal region of Anatolia;
Odysseus was curious as to what the Sirens sang to him, and so, on the advice of Circe, he had all of his sailors plug their ears with beeswax and tie him to the mast. He ordered his men to leave him tied tightly to the mast, no matter how much he would beg. When he heard their beautiful song, he ordered the sailors to untie him but they bound him tighter. When they had passed out of earshot, Odysseus demonstrated with his frowns to be released;); Prismatic Pictures ; American, out of copyright

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