Aeneas Saving Anchises at the Fall of Troy

1587–88 Sheet: 27.7 x 42.6 cm (10 7/8 x 16 3/4 in.) Source image
https://clevelandart.org/art/1960.26

In book two of Virgil's epic poem The Aeneid (29-19 BC), the Trojan hero Aeneas escapes from the burning city of Troy and its Greek invaders with his family. Here the artist shows them making their way through a classical corridor. Aeneas carries his elderly father, Anchises,...

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