Gerard de Lairesse, 1680 - Odysseus and Calypso - fine art print

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In the year 1680 the Dutch painter Gerard de Lairesse created the work of art. It is in the the Rijksmuseum's digital art collection. With courtesy of - Rijksmuseum (public domain).Also, the work of art has the following creditline: . The alignment is portrait and has an aspect ratio of 3 : 4, which implies that the length is 25% shorter than the width. The engraver, painter, art historian, decorator Gerard de Lairesse was an artist from the Netherlands, whose art style can be classified as Baroque. The artist was born in the year 1641 in Liege, Liege province, Wallonia, Belgium and died at the age of 70 in the year 1711.

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The Greek poet Homer recounts how the heroic warrior Odysseus found refuge on the island of the nymph Calypso. The Trojan War is over: Amor, the god of love, now teasingly places the battle helmet on Calypso’s head. Odysseus and Calypso instantly fall in love. This painting hung in the Soestdijk hunting lodge, in the apartment of Mary Stuart, the consort of William III.