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A final from the atrium of the House of Meleager, Pompeii (VI.9.2). Discovered 12 October 1829, a grief-stricken Dido, alongside the personification of Africa in elephant headdress, as Aeneas departs.

Image: National Archaeological Museum, Naples (8898)

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2021-08-06

Mercury, from Mercury Exhorting Aeneas to Leave Carthage, 1757

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2021-06-28

On here's Dido, joint ruler of Phoenician Tyre, driven out by her dastardly brother Pygmalion, who'd killed her husband. She bravely led other refugees to found a new city at Carthage. Before Roman ideologues got involved there was no Aeneas in her story.

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2021-06-20

Marcantonio Raimondi, Venus and Aeneas, 15th-16th century https://t.co/3XYgP33k7b

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2021-06-17

Giovanni Battista Tiepolo, The Apotheosis of Aeneas, c. 1765 https://t.co/lScS2ECQ4X

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2021-06-15

practice Aenean redesign

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2021-05-31

~ Aeneas tries to seize the golden branch that will allow him to enter the Underworld: there would have been various choices, but in the end I settled on the mistletoe plant!

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2021-05-31

This Roman cornelian gemstone depicting the goddess Venus and Anchises, the father of Aeneas, is our

Produced c. 25 BCE, this superb engraving is set in a gold and enamel 18th century frame.

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2021-05-28

Mercury, from Mercury Exhorting Aeneas to Leave Carthage, 1757

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2021-05-08

This is actually a big character sheet but this is all I can show in regards of my client

Vahdaenea
commission done for

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2021-05-06

Giovanni Battista Tiepolo, The Apotheosis of Aeneas, c. 1765 https://t.co/lScS2ECQ4X

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2021-05-03

Trying to shoe-horn in a link to and my Covid vaccination (as only I would do) leaves me with a fresco of a medical procedure—Aeneas having an arrowhead removed from his leg—and enemas discovered in the House of the Surgeon. Yikes.
Image 2: https://t.co/WuoRyJamhM

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2021-05-02

There was another famous Sibyl I bumped into once,the Sibyl of Cumae, near Naples, as consulted by Aeneas, referenced by Ovid and Petronius. Painted by Domenichino (Domenico Zampieri)(1581-1641), and Michelangelo in the Sistine Chapel (sometimes I wonder how much M liked women😏)

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2021-04-07

Inquisitor Project: Aeneas.

" Tell me the crimes I committed and I'll tell you the price of victory, that's what we always were and you two won't change that."

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2021-04-03

Vahdaenea Character commission
Commissioned by:

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2021-03-04

Vulcan Presenting Venus with Arms for Aeneas (1757)

François Boucher

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2021-03-04

Venus was the goddess of love, beauty and desire. She was the mother of the Roman people through her son, Aeneas, who survived the fall of Troy & fled to Italy & Julius Caesar claimed her as his ancestor. She has lived on into the modern world as a symbol of love & beauty

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2021-03-03