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Sep 29 2010

Homer and His Guide by Adolphe William Bouguereau of 1874

Academician / Bouguereau / French / Greco-Roman / Neoclassical / Paintings (Reproductions) - 1 year ago - troycapc

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This masterpiece of Adolphe William Bouguereau was created in 1874.  It depicts the blind master-poet of Ancient Greece being guided through the paths of the country-side by his sighted boy-guide.  In the background figures scoff at the author of the Iliad and the Odyssey.  This work is in the Milwaukee Art Museum in Wisconsin, USA.

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