Image: Galleria Sabauda, Turin
Musei Reali di Torino has highlighted Giovanni Benedetto Castiglione’s circa-1650 print ‘Circe Transforms Ulysses’ Companions’ as another point on an Odyssey-related trail at the Turin museums. Published on 8 September 2026, the post draws attention to the work through the episode named in its Italian title: Circe transforms Ulysses’ companions into animals.
The spotlight gives a specific graphic work a place within the museum’s continuing Odyssey reference, while remaining focused on Castiglione’s image and its subject. The post identifies the print as coming from the Galleria Sabauda’s graphic collections.
Castiglione, who was also known as Grechetto, lived from 1609 to 1664. His ‘Circe Transforms Ulysses’ Companions’ is described as an etching and engraving, dated around 1650.
