A 36×24-inch oil on panel
This landscape bends stylistically towards the era of Romanticism, a time of painters like John Constable and JMW Turner. The subject was taken from Homer's epic poem, The Odyssey. In it, Scylla was one of the many monsters and perilous obstacles that the story’s hero, Odysseus, was challenged to overcome. Scylla was a deadly roving rock that would crush ships, sending their sailors to watery deaths. Odysseus was told how to escape the horrible killer by the witch, Circe. Here the lethal rock drifts amongst the thick mists of the Aegean Sea, lurking in the shadows, seeking out any vessel unlucky enough to attempt passing thru the narrow pass she guarded jealously.
A 36×24-inch oil on panel
This landscape bends stylistically towards the era of Romanticism, a time of painters like John Constable and JMW Turner. The subject was taken from Homer's epic poem, The Odyssey. In it, Scylla was one of the many monsters and perilous obstacles that the story’s hero, Odysseus, was challenged to overcome. Scylla was a deadly roving rock that would crush ships, sending their sailors to watery deaths. Odysseus was told how to escape the horrible killer by the witch, Circe. Here the lethal rock drifts amongst the thick mists of the Aegean Sea, lurking in the shadows, seeking out any vessel unlucky enough to attempt passing thru the narrow pass she guarded jealously.
