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Ancient / Vergil / Aeneid / Cycles / Modena, Galleria Estense (Niccolò dell'Abate, 1540)
Ancient / Vergil / Aeneid / Book VII: Aeneas lands in Latium, beginning of conflict with Turnus / vv. 493-499: By mistake, Ascanius shoots the tame stag belonging to Sylvia
Ancient / Vergil / Aeneid / Book VII: Aeneas lands in Latium, beginning of conflict with Turnus / vv. 511-518: Alecto alarms Sylvia's friends with trumpet blasts
Ancient / Vergil / Aeneid / Book VII: Aeneas lands in Latium, beginning of conflict with Turnus / vv. 519-539: Sylvia's friends attack Ascanius and his companions
Ancient / Vergil / Aeneid / Book VII: Aeneas lands in Latium, beginning of conflict with Turnus / vv. 572-576: Sylvia's friends carry their dead comrades into Laurentium
Ancient / Vergil / Aeneid / Book VII: Aeneas lands in Latium, beginning of conflict with Turnus / vv. 641-817: Catalogue of the enemies of the Trojans

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Artist or creator

Abate, Niccolò dell' (1509-1571)

Date

1540

Location

Modena, Galleria Estense (inv. 609)

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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