Odysseus in the underworld. Johann georg hiltensperger (1806–1890). Wall panel, 1845–48. No. Lvii. St. Petersburg, state hermitage museum, gallery of the history of ancient painting, 57. Lvii. Nikias of athens, having painted a picture based on homer’s verses, “odysseus questioning the dead,” did not want to sell it to the pergamon king attalus, but gave it to his hometown (pliny, xxxv, 132). Date: 1845—1848 гг..
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