# Odysseus and Circe \(scene 5\)

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## Artwork

- Artist: [TIBALDI, Pellegrino](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/tibaldi-pellegrino-r05fe54e67e9b61>)
- Date: 1551-1600
- Technique: Fresco

## Commentary

The concluding fresco in the Sala di Ulisse is on the long side of the ceiling above the wall leading to the second Odysseus room, to the Stanza di Ulisse. A view opens onto the vast palace of the sorceress Circe, who transformed Odysseus&#39;s companions into animals. Odysseus resisted her magic by means of an herb that Mercury had given him. Mercury is seen at the right, he flies off.

## Related artworks

- [Adoration of the Christ Child](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/tibaldi-pellegrino-r05fe54e67e9b61/adoration-of-the-christ-child-r557613597a221d>)
- [Aelos Gives Odysseus the Bag of Winds \(scene 3\)](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/tibaldi-pellegrino-r05fe54e67e9b61/aelos-gives-odysseus-the-bag-of-winds-scene-3-r72e6cc80243e54>)
- [Annunciation of the Birth of John the Baptist](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/tibaldi-pellegrino-r05fe54e67e9b61/annunciation-of-the-birth-of-john-the-baptist-rf4d93d16acb87b>)
- [Ignudo](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/tibaldi-pellegrino-r05fe54e67e9b61/ignudo-r5727f06ac60a55>)
- [Ignudo](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/tibaldi-pellegrino-r05fe54e67e9b61/ignudo-ra6b9e0ec1a6726>)
- [Martyrdom of St Lawrence](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/tibaldi-pellegrino-r05fe54e67e9b61/martyrdom-of-st-lawrence-ree0df599fe8de0>)
- [Neptune and the Ship of Odysseus \(scene 4\)](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/tibaldi-pellegrino-r05fe54e67e9b61/neptune-and-the-ship-of-odysseus-scene-4-r1ed523e6dfae35>)
- [Odysseus and Ino Leucothea \(scene 8\)](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/tibaldi-pellegrino-r05fe54e67e9b61/odysseus-and-ino-leucothea-scene-8-rb07ef0fda3d639>)
- [Odysseus at the Court of the Phaeacians \(scene 9\)](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/tibaldi-pellegrino-r05fe54e67e9b61/odysseus-at-the-court-of-the-phaeacians-scene-9-r2ce050be2f4442>)
- [Polyphemus and the Flight of the Greeks \(scene 2\)](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/tibaldi-pellegrino-r05fe54e67e9b61/polyphemus-and-the-flight-of-the-greeks-scene-2-r0242c9921288ee>)
- [Shipwreck \(scene 7\)](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/tibaldi-pellegrino-r05fe54e67e9b61/shipwreck-scene-7-r1555314d50fcb3>)
- [The Blinding of Polyphemus \(detail\)](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/tibaldi-pellegrino-r05fe54e67e9b61/the-blinding-of-polyphemus-detail-r604768c77aced4>)

## Attribution

[Web Gallery of Art](<https://beta.wga.hu/pages/about>)