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LITERATURE

Ancient / Vergil / Aeneid / Cycles / Limoges enamels after the illustrations of the edition Strasbourg: Grüninger 1502
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. 79-80: Aeneas mans two ships to sail upstream to Pallantium, the city of king Evander
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

Artist or creator

Master of the Aeneid (active c1530-1540)

Date

1530 (circa) - 1535

Location

London, Victoria and Albert Museum (inv. 1604-1855)

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Victoria and Albert Museum

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Acknowledgements

Record created with the generous support of the Kress foundation

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