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Micco Spadaro, Rendimento di Grazie dopo la peste.

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2020-04-29

i can't stop thinking about "dido, abandoned by aeneas, dies of grief" as akeshu

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2020-04-23

"There was no King more just for his piety or greater for his warrior exploits, than Aeneas."
-Virgilio.Aeneid (I, 544)

"Piety, this is wisdom, and running away from evil, this is intelligence."
-Job, 28.28.



Father's grave. Georg Osterwald (1803-1884)

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2020-04-23

Raphael, 'Young Man Carrying an Old Man on His Back' (red chalk, c. 1514), preparatory drawing for a fresco, 'The Fire in the Borgo'; the drawing also brings instantly to mind the subject of Aeneas carrying his father Anchises as they escape burning Troy. Coll.

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2020-04-02

is also shown on this Rostovtzeff argued that the Trojan horse is depicted on the other side.

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2020-03-25

to the at the with this amazing painting of Aeneas, wounded, being treated by the surgeon Lapix, from the House of Siricus at & design of the painted wall from the triclinium it decorated (Nicolini 1854, t.II)

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2020-03-20

The Apotheosis of Aeneas (detail) by Jacob de Wit, c. 1720-1725

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2020-03-08

Jean Raoux (1677-1734)-'Dido and Aeneas'-oil on canvas-ca 1730 Canberra-National Gallery of Australia

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2020-03-02

🎧Henry Purcell:
Dido and Aeneas
End of Act III:
Dido´s Lament When I am laid in earth, soprano
Chorus With Drooping Wings
Simone Kermes, soprano
https://t.co/hdFqnj6vJU

🎨Dido and Aeneas
Set design by Bibiena, 1712

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2020-02-22

Venus Receiving the Arms from Vulcan for Aeneas, and Venere e Adone morto - Gaetano Gandolfi (Italian, 1734–1802)

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2020-01-06

Detail of Iapyx removing an arrowhead from the thigh of Aeneas as recounted in Virgil’s Aeneid. Aeneas’ son Ascanius weeps at his side and I love the soldiers muttering in the background.

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2019-11-28

late night doodle from last night, my and 's ocs Lucille and Aeneas, in modern look clothes. Lucille's taller hehe I wanna draw our other dudes for the height comparison, maybe later

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2019-11-22

One week to go & over 60% tickets sold. Join us for our staged production of on 26 October Book now at https://t.co/hpyAhzn5h7

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2019-10-19

THREAD for ’s + theme: Katabasis (descent to an underworld) is common in classical myth + lit, e.g. Odysseus, Aeneas, and Orpheus visit the Underworld. But this mythological theme is also prominent in fantasy literature:

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2019-10-18

The Romans believed there were several entrances to the One was Lake Avernus, which JMW Turner painted, with Aeneas consulting the Sibyl about how to make the descent to see his father (#Virgil, Aeneid 6)

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2019-10-17

Maharao Ram Singh (r.1827-66) shooting a tiger from a pavilion accompanied by the British political agent Kotah who is probably Capt Charles Aeneas Burton who was killed there in 1857 along with his two sons. c.1845-50 unknown artist pic frm Bonhams

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2019-10-05

I draw this, as in case if Lostbelt Rider is Aeneas and the Blondie Girl is Helen or Aphrodite.

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2019-09-07

One of the earliest surviving images of surgery: the physician Japix removes an arrow from the thigh of Aeneas. A fresco painted in the 1st century AD, and discovered in the ruins of Pompeii in 1825. From the collections of in Naples.

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2019-08-20