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Ulysses deriding Polyphemus -
Homer's Odyssey
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Turner seems to have had more pleasure in painting after his return from Italy
in 1819. Daring before, his confidence now appears have known no bounds—he
seemed to paint by inspiration, scorning all models; and, after many brilliant
successes and some failures, daring and his success culminated in this, the most
magnificent of all his works. Mr. Ruskin calls it the central picture in his
career.
Ulysses and his companions, according to Homer,’ in order to escape from the
Cyclops, heated his great staff and put out his one eye. The fire of the
Greek-is seen under the cliff on the left hand. In front is the gorgeous galley
of Ulysses. with its masts crowded with Greeks glorying in the discomfiture of
:the giant who, a grand misty shape of suffering, is seen on the top of the
hill, raising his hand in anguish or rage. Nothing can exceed the magnificence
of the morning sky, with the sun rising behind bars of crimson and leaden blue.
Mr. Ruskin says of this picture that “the burnished glow upon the sea, and the
breezy stir in the blue darkness about the base of the cliffs, and the noble
space of receding sky, vaulted with its lines of cloudy gold, and the upper
peaks of the snowy Sicilian promontory, are all as perfect and as great as human
work can be.” |
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