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LITERATURE
Ancient / Vergil / Aeneid / Book VIII: Vision of the river god Tiber, journey to king Evander of Pallantium, Venus brings Aeneas new arms / vv. 36-65: The river Tiber appears to the sleeping Aeneas and foretells him the foundation of Rome
Ancient / Vergil / Aeneid / Book VIII: Vision of the river god Tiber, journey to king Evander of Pallantium, Venus brings Aeneas new arms / vv. 81-85: Aeneas finds, as Tiber had prophesied, a sow with 30 piglets, and sacrifices her to Jupiter and Juno
Further details
Venus appears in the clouds, hardly visible on this photograph
Artist or creator
Date
1540
Location
Modena, Galleria Estense (inv. 610)
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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