The Meeting of Odysseus and Nausicaa, Meeting of Odysseus and Nausicaa, Illustration from Book VI of the Odysee of Homer. Odysseus, naked and exhausted after his shipwreck on the island of Phaeacia, scares Princess Nausicaa, daughter of King Alcinous and her companions. Nausicaa is at the center of the landscape, surrounded by her maids, some of whom are in a gilded car, Odysseus kneels right at the edge of the forest, between Odysseus and Nausicaa one of the maids in a red suit tries to flee., Jacob Jordaens (I) (signed by artist), Antwerp (possibly), c. 1630 - c. 1640, oil paint (paint), can

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