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Aeneas, Anchises, and Ascanius is a sculpture by the Italian artist Gian Lorenzo Bernini created c. 1618 –19. Housed in the Galleria Borghese in Rome, the sculpture depicts a scene from the Aeneid, where the hero Aeneas leads his family from burning Troy. [1] The life-sized group shows three generations of Aeneas' family.
Aeneas flees burning Troy, Federico Barocci, 1598 (Galleria Borghese, Rome, Italy). In Greco-Roman mythology, Aeneas (/ ɪ ˈ n iː ə s / ih-NEE-əs, [1] Latin: [äe̯ˈneːäːs̠]; from Ancient Greek: Αἰνείας, romanized: Aineíās) was a Trojan hero, the son of the Trojan prince Anchises and the Greek goddess Aphrodite (equivalent to the Roman Venus). [2]
Aeneas Fleeing Troy (c. 1640–1645) by Mattia Preti. Aeneas Fleeing Troy or The Flight From Troy is an oil-on-canvas painting executed c. 1640–1645 by the Italian Baroque artist Mattia Preti, now in the Galleria nazionale di arte antica in Palazzo Barberini in Rome. [1] It shows Aeneas carrying his father Anchises and being led by his young ...
Aeneas carrying Anchises from Troy. 520-510 BC. Anchises' first major appearance comes in Book 2. He is mentioned while Aeneas is telling Dido about the fall of Troy. [7] During the fall of Troy, Aeneas makes his way home to save Anchises, his wife Creusa, and his son Ascanius. [7] At first Anchises refuses to go with Aeneas and tells Aeneas to ...
Aeneas Flees Burning Troy, by Federico Barocci (1598). Galleria Borghese, Rome, Italy Map of Aeneas' fictional journey. The Aeneid (/ ɪ ˈ n iː ɪ d / ih-NEE-id; Latin: Aenēĭs [ae̯ˈneːɪs] or [ˈae̯neɪs]) is a Latin epic poem that tells the legendary story of Aeneas, a Trojan who fled the fall of Troy and travelled to Italy, where he became the ancestor of the Romans.
The boy Ascanius weeps and Venus hovers nearby as the physician Iapyx treats the wound of Aeneas (wall painting from Pompeii, 1st century AD). Ascanius (/ ə ˈ s k eɪ n i ə s /; Ancient Greek: Ἀσκάνιος) [1] was a legendary king of Alba Longa (1176-1138 BC) and the son of the Trojan hero Aeneas and Creusa, daughter of Priam.
Homer does not mention Aeneas having a wife, [1] while according to Pausanias, the poet Lesches and the author of the Cypria had her as one Eurydice. [2] It is only in the 1st century BC, in the works of Virgil, Livy, and Dionysius of Halicarnassus that Creusa is first given as Aeneas's wife; in these accounts she is the mother of Ascanius by Aeneas, and Dionysius also specifies Priam as her ...
Aeneas, Anchises and Ascanius (1618–19). Height: 220 cm (87 in). Galleria Borghese, Rome. Items portrayed in this file depicts. Aeneas, Anchises and Ascanius. creator.