Philoctetes on the Island of Lemnos

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Date:
1983
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William L. Pressly, 'James Barry: Artist as Hero', London: The Tate Gallery, 1983, p 52-3, no 2
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http://hdl.handle.net/2262/13559
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The Tate Gallery
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This canvas, painted for the Accademia Clementina in Bologna when Barry was made a member, is on the same ambitious scale he had chosen for 'The Temptation of Adam' (cgjc0762). Based on translations of two Greek texts, Glaucus' epigram on Parrhasius' lost picture and Sophocles' play, the painting depicts the Greek warrior Philoctetes had sailed with the Greek expedition mounted against Troy, but was bitten by a serpent on the journey.' (Pressly, 52)
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artist
Culture:
Irish
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228 cm x 157.5 cm
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canvas
Work:
painting
Author: Barry, James (Irish painter, printmaker, and lithographer, 1741-1806, active in England)
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artist
Publisher:
The Tate Gallery
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Image
URI:
http://hdl.handle.net/2262/13559
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Lemnos Island (Greece)
Period:
18th century
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