Head, Ulysses

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Coetzee, Christo

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Department of the University of Pretoria Art

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This Hermetic style painting of a portrait of Ulysses was reworked by Coetzee in 1988 in his mixed topography style. Coetzee places a black cape on a noble-looking Roman Ulysses, also known as Odysseus the Greek King of Ithaca and the adventurous hero of Homer's Odyssey.

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Hermetic style Homer's Odyssey

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