Iconography
GODS AND MYTHS
HISTORY
LITERATURE
Ancient / Vergil / Aeneid / Book VI: Aeneas in the underworld / vv. 175-178, 212-235: Burial of Misenus
Ancient / Vergil / Aeneid / Book VI: Aeneas in the underworld / vv. 190-205: Aeneas follows the doves
Ancient / Vergil / Aeneid / Book VI: Aeneas in the underworld / vv. 206-211: Aeneas breaks the golden bough
Ancient / Vergil / Aeneid / Book VI: Aeneas in the underworld / vv. 236-261: Sacrifice at the Lago Averno
Ancient / Vergil / Aeneid / Book VI: Aeneas in the underworld / vv. 268-294: Encounter with hellish monsters
Ancient / Vergil / Aeneid / Book VI: Aeneas in the underworld / vv. 295-336: The souls of the unburied
Ancient / Vergil / Aeneid / Book VI: Aeneas in the underworld / vv. 337-383: Encounter with the shadow of Palinurus
Ancient / Vergil / Aeneid / Book VI: Aeneas in the underworld / v. 430: Persons who had been unjustly executed
Ancient / Vergil / Aeneid / Book VI: Aeneas in the underworld / vv. 548-627: Punishments of Tartarus
Ancient / Vergil / Aeneid / Book VI: Aeneas in the underworld / vv. 666-678: Musaeus shows the way to Anchises
Ancient / Vergil / Aeneid / Book VI: Aeneas in the underworld / vv. 679-702: Encounter of Aeneas and Anchises
Ancient / Vergil / Aeneid / Book VI: Aeneas in the underworld / vv. 703-715: Souls drinking from the waters of Lethe
Ancient / Vergil / Aeneid / Book VI: Aeneas in the underworld / vv. 716-886: The prophecy of Anchises
Ancient / Vergil / Aeneid / Book VI: Aeneas in the underworld / vv. 893-898: Aeneas leaves through the Gates of Sleep
MAGIC AND SCIENCE
PORTRAITS
SECULAR ICONOGRAPHY
Further details
This composition follows the Sixth Book of the Aeneid, starting at the top left, then going towards Charon at the bottom centre, then to the bottom right (Minos), then up and left to the centre (Tartarus), then up and right (Anchises)
Artist or creator
Date
1581
Location
New York, Metropolitan Museum of Art (inv. 1974,0511.3)
Associated persons
Ian Jones (Photographer (digital))
Rights and Permissions
This material is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial 3.0 Unported License
Acknowledgements
Record created with the generous support of the Kress foundation
Contact
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