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LITERATURE
Ancient / Vergil / Aeneid / Census of Antique Art Known to the Renaissance / Unknown or lost Prototypes / Relief showing the Laurentine sow and the marriage of Aeneas to Lavinia
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
RITUAL
Further details
Described by Frothingham as pasticcio using some elements of reliefs of the sacrifice of the sow in the Aeneid
Artist or creator
Date
1460 - 1480
Location
Notes on photograph
Bibliographic Citation
A. L. Frothingham, A Pseudo-Roman Relief in the Uffizi - A Renaissance Forgery, American Journal of Archaeology 13 (1909), pp. 39-44
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Acknowledgements
Record created with the generous support of the Kress foundation
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