Christoph Amberger (c.1505–1561/2) was a German portrait painter.
Scenes in Art Based on the Odyssey
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Odysseus and Nausicaa in the Odyssey
Christoph Amberger, Odysseus and Nausicaa, 1619. Alte Pinakothek, Munich.
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Nausicaa, princess of Phaeacia, comes upon Odysseus in Odyssey Book VI. She and her attendants are making an event of doing the laundry. Odysseus is lying on the beach where he landed a shipwreck without clothes. He grabs some available greenery in the interest of modesty.
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