Tazza (drinking cup) with a scene of Circe and the Companions of Odysseus
Also titled Tazza (drinkschaal) met voorstelling van Circe en de gezellen van Odysseus
Adam van Vianen (I) (Utrecht, 1568–1627)
1610
- Medium
- silver (metal)
- Classification
- tazza
- Dimensions
- height 3.1 cm x diameter 18.2 cm x weight 281 g
- Museum
- Rijksmuseum
- Credit line
- Purchased with the support of the Rijksmuseum-Stichting and private collectors
- Rights
- Public Domain Mark, as the museum states it.
- Who can see it
- Teens profiles and older: its subject is for older viewers (war, death, the Passion, drink or the like). How works are placed
About this work
This is a scene from the Odyssey, the epic tale of the perilous journey home made by Odysseus and his companions after the fall of Troy. The men came to the island where the sorceress Circe lived. She gave them a magic potion that transformed them into pigs (a pig walks out at the left). Warned in the nick of time, Odysseus was able to break the spell.
