Maiolica bowl with Ulysses and Circe, by Francesco Xanto Avelli

An image of Maiolica broad rimmed bowl. Avelli, Francesco Xanto (painter), Raimondi, Marcantonio (printmaker), Monogrammist IB (printmaker), Dente, Marco (Marco da Ravenna) (printmaker). Ulysses commanding Circe to restore his Companions to their Rightful Forms. Tin-glazed earthenware bowl, height 4.6 cm, diameter 26.0 cm, 1532. Italian. The Marches, Urbino.

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Maiolica broad rimmed bowl. Avelli, Francesco Xanto (painter), Raimondi, Marcantonio (printmaker), Monogrammist IB (printmaker), Dente, Marco (Marco da Ravenna) (printmaker). Ulysses commanding Circe to restore his Companions to their Rightful Forms. Tin-glazed earthenware bowl, height 4.6 cm, diameter 26.0 cm, 1532. Italian. The Marches, Urbino.

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Accession Number: C.11-1953
Photograph copyright © The Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge.
Aperture: f/25.0
Focal length: 50
Camera: Canon EOS 5D
Photographer name: Michael Jones
Image height: 1024 pixels
Image width: 970 pixels
Processed with: Adobe Photoshop Lightroom 5.4 (Windows)
Filesize: 0.97MB
Exposure time: 1/125
ISO Speed: 200
Fnumber: 25/1
Captured: 2007:11:14 12:01:09

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16th Century bowl Circe classical earthenware Francesco Xanto Avelli homeric Italian literary figures literature maiolica Marcantonio Raimondi Marco da Ravenna metamorphoses mythological mythology Odysseus Ovid Renaissance swords throne Ulysses

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