TIBALDI, Pellegrino (b. 1527, Puria (Valsolda), d. 1596, Milano) |
Theft of the Cattle of Helios (scene 6)1550-51Fresco Stanza di Ulisse, Palazzo Poggi, Bologna | |
The story started in the Sala di Ulisse with five scenes, continues above the entry wall in the Stanza di Ulisse. Odysseus is sleeping and his half-starved companions storm the countryside and steal and slaughter the holy cattle of the sun god. An interesting detail of the fresco: a Greek in the foreground looks out and asks us to be quiet so that Odysseus does not wake. His facial expression is a variation on that of a damned man in Michelangelo's Last Judgment fresco in the Vatican. |