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Ancient / Vergil / Aeneid / Cycles / Modena, Galleria Estense (Niccolò dell'Abate, 1540)
Ancient / Vergil / Aeneid / Book IX: In Aeneas's absence, Turnus attacks in vain the Trojan camp / vv. 1-15: Iris encourages Turnus to attack the Trojan camp and leaves in a rainbow
Ancient / Vergil / Aeneid / Book IX: In Aeneas's absence, Turnus attacks in vain the Trojan camp / vv. 117-122 (also Ov. Met. XIV, 545-565): After Turnus set fire to the Trojan's ships, Cybele turns them into nymphs
Ancient / Vergil / Aeneid / Book IX: In Aeneas's absence, Turnus attacks in vain the Trojan camp / vv. 503-787: Turnus attacks the Trojan camp / No specific episode shown
Ancient / Vergil / Aeneid / Book IX: In Aeneas's absence, Turnus attacks in vain the Trojan camp / vv. 503-787: Turnus attacks the Trojan camp / vv. vv. 641-644: Apollo praises the courage of Ascanius ('Sic itur ad astra')

Further details

The deity above the camp of the Trojans may be Apollo admiring Ascanius's deeds

Artist or creator

Abate, Niccolò dell' (1509-1571)

Date

1540

Location

Modena, Galleria Estense (inv. 611)

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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