Hector and Andromache

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Hector and Andromache (1867-1870), H.W. Bissen and Vilhelm Bissen after Bretel Thorvaldsen’s original (1837), relief in marble. Thorvaldsen Museum (Copenhagen, Denmark). Made with Memento Beta (now ReMake) from AutoDesk.

This scene is drawn from Homer’s Iliad, Book VI, lines 399-493, where the brave Prince Hector of Troy takes leaves of his small son Astyanax and wife Andromache in order to go to war against the Greeks who have besieged their city. Andromache is standing on Hector’s left, and the little family is flanked on one side by the nursemaid, who has brought the child to his father, and on the other by a warrior, who has come to escort Hector to the theatre of war. Hector would not see his family again: he was to be killed in the battles that followed.

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