Ulysses with Calypso by Maurice Denis turns one of the great delays in Homer’s Odyssey into a sunlit coastal scene.

Calypso is the nymph who keeps Ulysses on her island, Ogygia, delaying his journey home. Denis paints the story as a strange kind of paradise: a bright sea, pink rocks, purple flowers, women on the shore, a rainbow in the distance, and Ulysses seated in the foreground, caught between beauty and departure.

That tension is what makes the painting interesting. It looks idyllic at first, but the story underneath is about longing, captivity and the difficulty of leaving something beautiful behind.

A mythological art print for bedrooms, living rooms, reading corners and gallery walls that need colour, romance and a story beneath the surface.