# Odysseus and Nausicaa [View the canonical artwork record]() ## Artwork - Artist: [ROSA, Salvator]() - Date: 1601-1650 - Technique: Oil on canvas, 195 x 144 cm ## Commentary Odysseus and Nausicaa 1663-64 Oil on canvas, 195 x 144 cm The Hermitage, St. Petersburg Odysseus \(Ulysses\) landed on the shores of the kingdom of Alcinous by a river where the king's daughter Nausicaa came with her maidens to wash clothes. Odysseus, naked but for a loincloth, creeps out of the bushes and approaches the princess. Her attendants, having finished their work, are making a picnic on the grass. They are startled at the sight. <P> <TABLE ALIGN=LEFT CELLPADDING=5 BORDER=1 WIDTH=320 BGCOLOR="\#99CCCC"> <TR VALIGN=MIDDLE><TD><IMG SRC="/support/gif/listen.gif" BORDER=0 VALIGN=MIDDLE> Suggested listening \(streaming mp3, 13 minutes\):<BR><A HREF="\#" onClick="w=window.open \('/music1/17\_cent/monteverdi\_ulisse.html', 'newWin', 'scrollbars=yes,status=no,dependent=yes,screenX=0,screenY=0,width=350,height=350'\);w.opener=this;w.focus\(\);return true"><B>Claudio Monteverdi: Il ritorno d'Ulisse, Act I, Duet of Odysseus and Pallas Athene</B></A> </TD></TR></TABLE> ## Related artworks - [A Battle Scene]() - [A Friar Tempted by Demons]() - [Anchorites Tempted by Demons]() - [Democritus in Meditation]() - [Democritus in Meditation]() - [Diogenes Casting away his Cup]() - [Evening Landscape]() - [Grotto with Cascades]() - [Harbour with Ruins]() - [Heroic Battle]() - [Human Fragility]() - [Marine Landscape with Towers]() ## Attribution [Web Gallery of Art]()