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~ 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

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

last commission of the first batch!
Veneas for ✨

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2021-03-27

WIP Eneas Erikson

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2021-03-14

Oii, eu sou a Ana e faço umas artizeneas, e esqueço de postar as vezes
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Algumas artes minhas ae

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2021-03-14

Rheneas but he’s a mix of his TV series model and CGI series render




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2021-03-05

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

In Virgil's Aeneid, the river god Tiberinus appears to Aeneas in a dream to tell him his son is destined to found the great city of Alba. He will know place when he sees this omen: a spotless white sow with thirty white piglets.

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2021-03-01

Aeneas Αἰνείας

Real meaning: who is praised

Origin: obscure Ancient Greek word, likely from Luwian, the language of Troy

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2021-02-15

INF 2
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says
"Tu dici che di Silvio il parente, corruttibile ancora, ad immortale secolo ando', e fu sensibilmente. "
litterally
"You tell of Silvio's parent (Aeneas) that, still corruptible (alive), to the immortal century (afterlife) went, and was sensibly (in his body)"

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2021-02-14