Iconography
LITERATURE
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. 174-179: The Trojans dry the corn that has become wet and grind it into flour
Ancient / Vergil / Aeneid / Book I: Storm, landing in Libya, arrival in Carthago, meeting with Dido / vv. 184-193: After landing, Aeneas, accompanied by Achates, shoots seven stags
Ancient / Vergil / Aeneid / Book I: Storm, landing in Libya, arrival in Carthago, meeting with Dido / vv. 194-197: Aeneas gives the Trojans the three stags and Trinacrian wine as a meal
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
Further details
At the right backgound the ships of several Trojans who had arrived elsewhere, in the middle ground probably Dido's banquet
Artist or creator
Date
1540
Location
Modena, Galleria Estense (inv. 585)
Notes on photograph
Bibliographic Citation
Walter Bombe, Gli affreschi dell'Eneide di Niccolò dellAbate nel Palazzo di Scandiano, Bollettino d'Arte 10 (1931), pp. 529-553
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Record created with the generous support of the Kress foundation
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