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Painting by J. M. W. Turner
Ulysses Deriding Polyphemus Artist J. M. W. Turner Year 1829 Medium Oil on canvas Dimensions 132.7 cm × 203 cm (52.2 in × 80 in) Location National Gallery , London
Ulysses Deriding Polyphemus is an 1829 oil painting by Joseph Mallord William Turner . It depicts a scene from Homer 's Odyssey , showing Odysseus (Ulysses) standing on his ship deriding Polyphemus , one of the cyclopes he encounters and has recently blinded,[1] who is disguised behind one of the mountains on the left side. Additional details include the Trojan Horse , a scene from Virgil 's Aeneid , on one of the flags and the horses of Apollo rising above the horizon.[2] The painting was exhibited at the Royal Academy of Arts in 1829.[3] Acquired by the National Gallery in 1856, the painting is on display in room 34.[4]
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Interior of a Romanesque Church (c. 1795-1800)
Landscape with Windmill and Rainbow (c. 1795-1800)
Diana and Callisto (c. 1796)
Fishermen at Sea (1796)
Interior of a Gothic Church (c. 1797)
Limekiln at Coalbrookdale (c. 1797)
Moonlight, a Study at Millbank (1797)
Aeneas and the Sibyl, Lake Avernus (c. 1798)
Buttermere Lake, with Part of Cromackwater, Cumberland, a Shower (1798)
Caernarvon Castle (c. 1798)
Morning amongst the Coniston Fells, Cumberland (1798)
Shipping by a Breakwater (1798)
Tivoli and the Roman Campagna (c. 1798)
View of a Town (c. 1798)
Dolbadarn Castle (1798–99)
Self-Portrait (c. 1799)
View in Wales: Mountain Scene with Village and Castle - Evening (c. 1799-1800)
Welsh Mountain Landscape (c. 1799-1800)
A Beech Wood with Gypsies round a Campfire (c. 1800)
A Beech Wood with Gypsies Seated in the Distance (c. 1800)
Landscape with Lake and Fallen Tree (c. 1800)
View on Clapham Common (c. 1800-1805)
The Fifth Plague of Egypt (1810)
High Street, Oxford (1810)
Snow Storm: Hannibal and his Army Crossing the Alps (1812)
Dido building Carthage, or, The Rise of the Carthaginian Empire (1815)
Dort or Dordrecht: The Dort packet-boat from Rotterdam becalmed (1818)
The Battle of Trafalgar (1822)
Port Ruysdael (1826)
Chichester Canal (1828)
Ulysses Deriding Polyphemus (1829)
The Fountain of Indolence (1834)
The Golden Bough (1834)
The Burning of the Houses of Lords and Commons (1835)
Rome, From Mount Aventine (1835)
Venice, from the Porch of Madonna della Salute (c. 1835)
The Fighting Temeraire Tugged to Her Last Berth to Be Broken up (1838)
Modern Rome – Campo Vaccino (1839)
Slave Ship (Slavers Throwing Overboard the Dead and Dying, Typhoon Coming On) (1840)
Snow Storm: Steam-Boat off a Harbour's Mouth (1842)
The Blue Rigi (1842)
The Red Rigi (1842)
War. The Exile and the Rock Limpet (1842)
Light and Colour (Goethe's Theory) – The Morning after the Deluge – Moses Writing the Book of Genesis (1843)
Rain, Steam and Speed – The Great Western Railway (1844)
Sunrise with Sea Monsters (1845)
Norham Castle, Sunrise (c. 1845)
Whalers (c. 1845)
The Beacon Light (unknown)
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