File:Angelica Kauffmann - Ulysses discovers Achilles.jpg
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Angelica Kauffmann - Ulysses discovers Achilles
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English: Ulysses, wearing a turban, has his hand on Achilles arm and looks him in the eye, whilst one of the ladies is pointing. Knowing that, if he were to fight in the Trojan War, her son Achilles would be killed, Thetis sent him to the court of Lycomedes, where he was disguised as a girl amongst the King¿s daughters. An Ulysses came in search of Achilles after an oracle stated that Troy could not be taken without him. Disguising himself as a merchant, he offered jewellery and arms for sale. Lycomedes¿ daughters went for the jewellery, but Achilles betrayed his true sex by instinctively choosing the armour and trying out the weapons. The story is related in Hyginus and Ovid's Metamorphoses 13:162-70. This painting was exhibited at the first Royal Academy exhibition in 1769 by Angelica Kauffman, a co-founder of the Royal Academy and friend of Sir Joshua Reynolds. |
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https://www.nationaltrustcollections.org.uk/object/872174 https://artuk.org/discover/artworks/ulysses-discovering-achilles-101591 |
| Author | Angelika Kauffmann |
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This work is in the public domain in its country of origin and other countries and areas where the copyright term is the author's life plus 70 years or fewer. This work is in the public domain in the United States because it was published (or registered with the U.S. Copyright Office) before January 1, 1929. |
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