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A seminal iconography in the gallery of Cardinal Borghese, that of Aeneas fleeing from Troy as it goes up in flames, his father Anchises over his shoulders and little Ascanius, followed by his wife Creusa.

⁠👤 Federico Barocci
🖼 Fuga da Troia
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2021-10-21

– 4 October

“certus es ire tamen miseramque relinquere Dido,
atque idem venti vela fidemque ferent?
certus es, Aenea, cum foedere solvere naves,
quaeque ubi sint nescis, Itala regna sequi?
nec nova Carthago, nec te crescentia tangunt...

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2021-10-04

Alistar, former King of the Inquisitors. "father" of Aeneas.

-He lived like a bastard.

-he died for his own ego.

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2021-09-26

concept doodle for Aeneas? he wields a sword entrusted to him by the King of Troy as he seeks to reestablish the lost glory of Troy

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2021-09-01

Aeneas is the son of the former king of the inquisitors, so he is a prince. https://t.co/X4DOyZ8gXO

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2021-08-14

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