Odysseus at the Court of Alcinous

Odysseus at the Court of Alcinous is an oil on canvas painting by Francesco Hayez, painted between 1814 and 1816 and now in the National Museum of Capodimonte in Naples. It was commissioned for Gioacchino Murat by Naples' interior minister Giuseppe Zurlo, using dimensions, price and subject specified by Hayez's patron and protector Leopoldo Cicognara, president of the Accademia di Venezia.


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