Iconography

GODS AND MYTHS

Neptune / Various activities / Riding in a chariot

LITERATURE

Ancient / Vergil / Aeneid / Cycles / Cassone panels / New Haven, Yale University Art Gallery (Apollonio di Giovanni, Mid-15th century)
Ancient / Vergil / Aeneid / Book I: Storm, landing in Libya, arrival in Carthago, meeting with Dido / vv. 50-80: Juno asking Aeolus to release the storm
Ancient / Vergil / Aeneid / Book I: Storm, landing in Libya, arrival in Carthago, meeting with Dido / vv. 82-91: The storm
Ancient / Vergil / Aeneid / Book I: Storm, landing in Libya, arrival in Carthago, meeting with Dido / vv. 124-141: Neptune calms the seas ('Quos ego')
Ancient / Vergil / Aeneid / Book I: Storm, landing in Libya, arrival in Carthago, meeting with Dido / vv. 157-179: The Trojans land in Libya
Ancient / Vergil / Aeneid / Book I: Storm, landing in Libya, arrival in Carthago, meeting with Dido / vv. 314-334: Venus appears to Aeneas and Achates as Virgin Huntress
Ancient / Vergil / Aeneid / Book I: Storm, landing in Libya, arrival in Carthago, meeting with Dido / vv. 402-414: Venus disappears from Aeneas and Achates

Further details

Left half, 1. Juno and Aeolus; 2. Storm; 3. Quos ego; 4. Trojans landing; 5. Venus (disguised as huntress) disappears

Artist or creator

Apollonio di Giovanni (Dido Master, born 1415 or 1417, died 1465)

Date

1450 - 1460

Location

New Haven, CT, Yale University Art Gallery (inv. 1871.34)

Associated persons

Ian Jones (Photographer (digital))

Notes on photograph

Bibliographic Citation

Paul Schubring, Cassoni, Leipzig 1915-1923, no. 223; Ellen Callmann, Apollonio di Giovanni, Oxford 1974, pp. 54-55, no. 6

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Acknowledgements

Record created with the generous support of the Kress foundation

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