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Keywords: Dutch - Portrait of the Poet Homer - Walters 37646.jpg The old man honored by a laurel wreath is Homer the greatest poet of antiquity identified by the inscription on the sheet of paper with the names of the cities that claimed Homer as a native This imaginary portrait no one knows what he looked like is not so much a celebration of the author of the early Greek epic poems- The Iliad and The Odyssey- but of the fame that a poet could achieve This splendid painting is dated but not signed The forceful modeling suggests a Flemish painter influenced by Caravaggio Italian 1571-1610 1639 Baroque oil on panel cm 72 1 56 8 accession number 37 646 35475 Don Marcello Massarenti Collection Rome Henry Walters city Baltimore Walters Art Museum Henry Walters Acquired by Henry Walters with the Massarenti Collection 1902 Dated lower left place of origin Netherlands Walters Art Museum license 2D Baroque paintings in the Walters Art Museum Homer on paintings Media contributed by the Walters Art Museum needs category review
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