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GODS AND MYTHS
Historia Troiana / The War of Troy / Main episodes / The Trojan Horse / Sinon lies to Priam about the departure of the Greeks
Historia Troiana / The War of Troy / Main episodes / The Trojan Horse / Laocoön killed by snakes / Copies and imitations of the Vatican group
Historia Troiana / The War of Troy / Main episodes / The Trojan Horse / Laocoön warns against the horse
Historia Troiana / The War of Troy / Main episodes / The Trojan Horse / The Trojans pull the horse into the city
Historia Troiana / The War of Troy / Main episodes / The Trojan Horse / The Greeks alight from the horse
LITERATURE
Ancient / Vergil / Aeneid / Book II: Aeneas recounts the sack of Troy / vv. 40-53: Laocoon hurls a spear against the horse
Ancient / Vergil / Aeneid / Book II: Aeneas recounts the sack of Troy / vv. 77-191: Sinon tells Priam of the departure of the Greeks
Further details
Artist or creator
Date
1540
Location
Modena, Galleria Estense (inv. 601)
Associated persons
Ian Jones (Photographer (digital))
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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