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LITERATURE

Ancient / Vergil / Aeneid / Cycles / Modena, Galleria Estense (Niccolò dell'Abate, 1540)
Ancient / Vergil / Aeneid / Book X: Aeneas and Pallas, son of Evander, come to support the Trojans in the camp, Pallas is killed by Turnus / vv. 1-117: At the council of the gods Jupiter declares that the winner of the coming day will win the conflict
Ancient / Vergil / Aeneid / Book X: Aeneas and Pallas, son of Evander, come to support the Trojans in the camp, Pallas is killed by Turnus / vv. 276-286: Aeneas and his embassy return to support Ascanius, Turnus tries to prevent their landing
Ancient / Vergil / Aeneid / Book X: Aeneas and Pallas, son of Evander, come to support the Trojans in the camp, Pallas is killed by Turnus / vv. 812-820: After warning Lausus to desist from trying to rescue his father Mezentius, Aeneas kills him
Ancient / Vergil / Aeneid / Book X: Aeneas and Pallas, son of Evander, come to support the Trojans in the camp, Pallas is killed by Turnus / vv. 888-908: Aeneas attacks the horse of Mezentius so that it throws him off, and then kills him with a sword

Further details

The image does nto show the killing of Lausus, but his dead body in the left foreground

Artist or creator

Abate, Niccolò dell' (1509-1571)

Date

1540

Location

Modena, Galleria Estense (inv. 578)

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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