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dc.contributor.authorBarry, James (Irish painter, printmaker, and lithographer, 1741-1806, active in England)
dc.coverage.spatialPinacoteca nazionale (Bologna, Italy)
dc.date.accessioned2008-02-02T10:33:30Z
dc.date.available2008-02-02T10:33:30Z
dc.date.created1770
dc.date.issued1983
dc.identifier.citationWilliam L. Pressly, 'James Barry: Artist as Hero', London: The Tate Gallery, 1983, p 52-3, no 2en
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/2262/13559
dc.descriptionThis 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)en
dc.format.extent567147 bytes
dc.format.mediumoil paint (pigmented coating)en
dc.format.mimetypeimage/jpeg
dc.language.isoen
dc.publisherThe Tate Galleryen
dc.subjectLemnos Island (Greece)en
dc.subject.lcshArt, Irishen
dc.subject.lcshPainting, Irishen
dc.subject.lcshArt and mythology pictorial worksen
dc.subject.lcshPhiloctetes (Greek mythology)en
dc.subject.lcshLimnos Island (Greece)en
dc.subject.lcshSublime, The, in arten
dc.titlePhiloctetes on the Island of Lemnosen
dc.typeImageen
dc.contributor.roleartisten
dc.coverage.cultureIrishen
dc.format.extentdimensions228 cm x 157.5 cm
dc.format.supportcanvasen
dc.subject.period18th century
dc.type.workpaintingen


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