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Aeneas Going to Battle
Gerard de Lairesse1667
Rijksmuseum
Amsterdam, Netherlands
De Lairesse’s subject matter was frequently highly idiosyncratic. This time he chose a rarely portrayed scene in the Aeneid, Vergil’s epic poem about the Trojan Aeneas. The goddess Venus, Aeneas’ mother, enjoins her son from a cloud to wage war against the Greeks. Desperate, his wife Creusa and son Ascanius, try to stop him. To no avail, naturally.
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- Title: Aeneas Going to Battle
- Creator: Lairesse, Gerard de
- Date Created: 1667
- Physical Dimensions: papier
- Rights: http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/
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