Iconography
ARCHITECTURE
LITERATURE
Ancient / Vergil / Aeneid / Cycles / Ferrara, Castello Estense (Dosso Dossi, c1520, dispersed, only few panels known)
Ancient / Vergil / Aeneid / Book I: Storm, landing in Libya, arrival in Carthago, meeting with Dido / vv. 194-197: Aeneas gives the Trojans the three stags and Trinacrian wine as a meal
Ancient / Vergil / Aeneid / Book I: Storm, landing in Libya, arrival in Carthago, meeting with Dido / vv. 297-304: Jupiter sends Mercury to the Carthagians, to make them well-disposed towards the Trojans
Ancient / Vergil / Aeneid / Book I: Storm, landing in Libya, arrival in Carthago, meeting with Dido / vv. 393-401: Venus tells Aeneas that his men have landed safely, just as swans in the air had not been disturbed by an eagle
Further details
This image is problematic. The scenes at the left are reminiscent of Book I, but it offers no explanation for the fight and the spectators. Christiansen published a painting (N.Y., private coll.) that clearly shows scenes from Book V, thus he attempts to link this image to Book I only
Artist or creator
Date
1520 (circa)
Location
Notes on photograph
Bibliographic Citation
Keith Christiansen, Dosso Dossi's Aeneas frieze for Alfonso d'Este's Camerino, Apollo 151 (2000), pp. 36-45
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Acknowledgements
Record created with the generous support of the Kress foundation
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