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Teiresias Foretells the Future to Odysseus by Henry Fuseli
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Artist: Henry Fuseli
At the edge of the world Odysseus holds back the ghosts with his sword while the blind prophet drinks the blood and speaks: Fuseli’s land of the dead.
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To get home Odysseus had to go to the dead. Circe told him to dig a trench at the edge of the world, pour in the blood of black sheep, and wait for the ghost of the blind prophet Teiresias, who alone among the dead kept his mind. Henry Fuseli, the Swiss painter of nightmares who worked in London, painted the consultation around 1800: Odysseus crouched with his sword drawn to keep the other ghosts from the blood, and the prophet bending toward him out of the dark to say what waits in Ithaca.
It is one of very few paintings of the episode, which most artists found impossible to picture, and Fuseli makes it a scene from a dream, all muscle and shadow. The work is in the National Museum of Wales in Cardiff. Our hand-painted reproduction is made in oil on canvas from the original.
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