Circe and Her Lovers in a Landscape

Circe and Her Lovers in a Landscape is an oil painting by Italian artist Dosso Dossi.

[1] Around are her lovers changed to birds and beasts, a greyhound, a white puppy, a stag with horns in the velvet, a hawk, an owl, and a spoonbill.

[1] Wooded landscape and buildings to the left, against a horizon flushed with light and blue sky.

[1] According to Robert Henry Benson, this is probably an early work painted under the inspiration of Giorgione and Titian.

[1] The same critic notes that the choice and treatment of the subject suggest a sense of humour in Dossi.

Circe (detail)