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    "localId": "136390",
    "label": "Aeneas Saving Anchises at the Fall of Troy",
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    "dtoType": "drawing"
}

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    "id": "136390",
    "contentType": "drawing",
    "title": "Aeneas Saving Anchises at the Fall of Troy",
    "description": "In book two of Virgil's epic poem <em>The Aeneid</em> (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, entrusted with holding their household gods. Aeneas holds the hand of his son, Ascanius, and his wife Creusa follows behind. Creusa's separation from the group alludes to her fate: she will fall behind and not survive their flight. Quick sketches on the right border of the sheet show Barocci practicing the balancing pose of Aeneas as he carries his father, and the stance of Creusa. The drawing relates to a now lost painting by Barocci and was also made into an engraving by Agostino Carracci (see CMA 1963.456). Details in the drawing such as the dog bounding down the stairs and Creusa's flowing hair and head scarf do not appear in the engraving.",
    "date": "1587–88",
    "citation": "https://clevelandart.org/art/1960.26",
    "rights": "CC0",
    "rightsUri": "CC0",
    "language": "en",
    "wikidata": [
        "Q80030271"
    ],
    "creators": [
        1180
    ],
    "genreSpecific": [
        "Drawing"
    ],
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    "largeImageUrl": "https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1960.26/1960.26_web.jpg",
    "imageCount": 1,
    "source": "import",
    "dimensionsRaw": "Sheet: 27.7 x 42.6 cm (10 7/8 x 16 3/4 in.)",
    "cul": [
        "Italy, 16th century"
    ],
    "accession": "1960.26"
}

{
    "tec": "Pen and brown ink, brush and brown wash and yellow gouache heightened with traces of white, over black chalk, with stylus (banister); framing lines in pen and brown ink",
    "tombstone": "Aeneas Saving Anchises at the Fall of Troy, 1587–88. Federico Barocci (Italian, 1528–1612). Pen and brown ink, brush and brown wash and yellow gouache heightened with traces of white, over black chalk, with stylus (banister); framing lines in pen and brown ink; sheet: 27.7 x 42.6 cm (10 7/8 x 16 3/4 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, L. E. Holden Fund, 1960.26",
    "supportMaterials": [
        {
            "description": "gray-green laid paper, laid down on cream(3) laid paper"
        }
    ],
    "collection": "DR - Italian",
    "inscriptions": [
        {
            "inscription": "lower left, in brown ink: 17 ; lower right, in brown ink: [illegible] ; lower right, in brown ink: 55 ; VERSO OF SECONDARY SUPPORT, center, in brown ink: Intagliato da Agostino Caracci. Il quadro è in Casa Borghese . [sideways] ; upper right, in graphite: 2767 [circled] "
        }
    ],
    "didYouKnow": "This drawing may have been once owned by the painter Peter Paul Rubens (1577–1640).",
    "citations": [
        {
            "citation": "\"Year in Review 1960.\" <em>The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art </em>47, no. 72 (December 1960).",
            "page_number": "Mentioned: p. 253, under n. 72"
        },
        {
            "citation": "Cleveland Museum of Art, “Two Italian Drawings,” October 25, 1960, Cleveland Museum of Art Archives.",
            "url": "https://archive.org/details/cmapr0629"
        },
        {
            "citation": "Richards, Louise. \"Federico Barocci: A Study for <em>Aeneas' Flight from Troy</em>.\" <em>Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art </em>48 (April 1961): 63-65.",
            "page_number": "Mentioned: pp. 63-65; Reproduced: p. 63, n. 1"
        },
        {
            "citation": "Olsen, Harald. <em>Federico Barocci</em>. Copenhagen: Munksgaard, 1962.",
            "page_number": "Mentioned: p. 182; Reproduced: n. 64"
        },
        {
            "citation": "Jaffé, Michael. \"The Figurative Arts of the West c. 1400-1800.\" <em>Apollo </em>(December 1963): 457-467.",
            "page_number": "Mentioned: p. 466; Reproduced: p. 462, n. 5"
        },
        {
            "citation": "Cummings, Frederick J. <em>Art in Italy, 1600-1700</em>. Detroit, MI: Detroit Institute of Arts, 1965.",
            "page_number": "Mentioned: p. 73, under n. 63; Reproduced: p. 74"
        },
        {
            "citation": "The Cleveland Museum of Art. <em>Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art/1966</em>. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1966.",
            "page_number": "Reproduced: p. 100",
            "url": "https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1966/page/n124"
        },
        {
            "citation": "The Cleveland Museum of Art. <em>Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art/1969</em>. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1969.",
            "page_number": "Reproduced: p. 100",
            "url": "https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1969/page/n124"
        },
        {
            "citation": "Günther, Hubertus. \"Uffizien 135 A- Eine Studie Baroccis.\" <em>Mitteilungen des Kunsthistorischen Institutes in Florenz </em>14 (1970): 239-246.",
            "page_number": "Mentioned: p. 242"
        },
        {
            "citation": "Bacou, Roseline. <em>Cartons d'artistes du XVe au XIXe siècle</em>. Paris: Musée du Louvre, 1974.",
            "page_number": "Mentioned: p. 19, under n. 14"
        },
        {
            "citation": "Gaeta Bertelà, Giovanna. <em>Disegni di Federico Barocci: Catalogo della mostra</em>. Florence: Leo S. Olschki, 1975.",
            "page_number": "Mentioned: p. 61, under n. 56"
        },
        {
            "citation": "Feinblatt, Ebria. <em>Old Master Drawings from American Collections</em>. Los Angeles: Los Angeles County Museum of Art, 1976.",
            "page_number": "Mentioned: p. 92, under n. 112"
        },
        {
            "citation": "Morford, Mark P. O., and Robert J. Lenardon. <em>Classical Mythology</em>, 2nd edition. New York: David McKay Company, Inc., 1977.",
            "page_number": "Mentioned and reproduced: p. 326"
        },
        {
            "citation": "Günther, Hubertus. \"Federico Barocci 'Die Flucht des Äneas aus Troja': Zur Geschichte des Bildes.\" <em>Weltkunst </em>47 (October 1977): 1858-1859.",
            "page_number": "Mentioned: p. 1859; Reproduced: p.1858"
        },
        {
            "citation": "The Cleveland Museum of Art. <em>Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art/1978</em>. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1978.",
            "page_number": "Reproduced: p. 116",
            "url": "https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1978/page/n136"
        },
        {
            "citation": "Pillsbury, Edmund P., and Louise S. Richards. <em>The Graphic Art of Federico Barocci: Selected Drawings and Prints. </em>New Haven, CT: Yale University Art Gallery, 1978.",
            "page_number": "Mentioned: pp. 9-10, 77-78, under n. 54; Reproduced: p. 77, n. 54"
        },
        {
            "citation": "Walters, Gary R. <em>Federico Barocci: Anima Naturaliter</em>. New York and London: Garland Publishing, Inc., 1978.",
            "page_number": "Mentioned: pp. 129 and 201, note 23"
        },
        {
            "citation": "Bohlin, Diane DeGrazia. <em>Prints and Related Drawings by the Carracci Family: A Catalogue Raisonné</em>. Washington, DC: National Gallery of Art, 1979.",
            "page_number": "Mentioned: pp. 326-328, note 2"
        },
        {
            "citation": "Johnson, Mark M. Idea to Image: <em>Preparatory Studies from the Renaissance to Impressionism.</em> Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1980.",
            "page_number": "Mentioned: pp. 42-44; Reproduced: p. 43, n. 46"
        },
        {
            "citation": "Olszewski, Edward J., and Jane Glaubinger.<em> The Draftsman's Eye: Late Italian Renaissance Schools and Styles.</em> Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1981.",
            "page_number": "Mentioned: pp. 8, 55, 60, 61-63, under n. 34; Reproduced: p. 62, n. 34"
        },
        {
            "citation": "Emiliani, Andrea. <em>Federico Barocci (Urbino, 1535-1612)</em>, vol. 2. Bologna: Nuova Alfa Editoriale, 1985.",
            "page_number": "Mentioned: p. 236; Reproduced: p. 237, n. 490"
        },
        {
            "citation": "Miller, Michael. <em>Drawing: A Glossary of Materials: Selections from the Cleveland Museum of Art</em>. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1987.",
            "page_number": "Reproduced: p. 3"
        },
        {
            "citation": "Larsen, Erik. \"Ein unbekanntes Hauptwerk des Peter Paul Rubens aus seiner italienischen Zeit 'Die Flucht des Äneas aus Troja.' \" <em>Pantheon </em>52 (1994): 79-85.",
            "page_number": "Mentioned: pp. 82-84; Reproduced: p. 80, n. 3"
        },
        {
            "citation": "DeGrazia, Diane, and Carter E. Foster. <em>Master Drawings from the Cleveland Museum of Art.</em> Cleveland, OH: Cleveland Museum of Art in association with Rizzoli International Publications, New York, 2000.",
            "page_number": "Mentioned: pp. 40-41, 284; Reproduced: p. 41, n. 10"
        },
        {
            "citation": "Goldner, George G. \" Review of Master Drawings from The Cleveland Museum of Art.\" <em>Master Drawings</em> 40, no. 2 (Summer 2002): 174-176.",
            "page_number": "Mentioned: p. 175, under n. 10"
        },
        {
            "citation": "Olszewski, Edward J., edited. <em>A Corpus of Drawings in Midwestern Collections: Sixteenth-Century Italian Drawings</em>, vol. 1. Turnhout, Belgium: Brepols Publishers, 2008.",
            "page_number": "Mentioned: pp. 33-34, under n. 29; Reproduced: p. 33, n. 29"
        },
        {
            "citation": "Mann, Judith Walker, Babette Bohn, with Carol Plazzotta. <em>Federico Barocci: Renaissance Master of Color and Line</em>. St. Louis, MO: Saint Louis Art Museum; New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 2012.",
            "page_number": "Mentioned: pp. 274 and 281, note 13"
        }
    ],
    "url": "https://clevelandart.org/art/1960.26",
    "creditline": "L. E. Holden Fund",
    "updatedAt": "2026-05-29 06:57:39.972000",
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