Sujet

Idealized Portrait of the Poet Homer, 1639. Creator: Unknown.

Légende

Idealized Portrait of the Poet Homer, 1639. The old man honored by a laurel wreath is Homer, the greatest poet of antiquity, identified by the inscription on the sheet of paper with the names of the cities that claimed Homer as a native. This imaginary portrait (no one knows what he looked like) is not so much a celebration of the author of the early Greek epic poems- The Iliad and The Odyssey- but of the fame that a poet could achieve.

Crédit

Photo12/Heritage Images/Heritage Art

Notre référence

HRM23B16_106

Model release

NA

Property release

NA

Licence

Droits gérés

Format disponible

56,6Mo (2,0Mo) / 33,8cm x 42,0cm / 3987 x 4960 (300dpi)

Mots clés

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