Aeneid Myths in Art

Laocoön and His Sons
Athanadoros, Hagesandros, and Polydoros of Rhodes
early 1st century., Vatican Museum
El Greco. Laocoon.1608-1614. Oil on canvas.142 x 193 cm
National Gallery of Art, Washington
F. Kontoglou, "Laocoon", 1938, oils, 80x100 cm.
Anne Tabachnick
Edge of the Ciy: Laocoön, c. 1989-90
Acrylic on canvas, 30 1/8 x 36 1/2 inches
Peter Petri (contemporary). Laocoon in Legoland.
Black-figure vase. British Museum
Detail from red-figure vase
Aeneas carries his father Anchises and leads his son Ascanius from burning
Troy: copy of a wall painting from Pompeii, first century AD. (VRoma: EUR
(Rome), Museum of Roman Civilization: Barbara McManus)
RAFFAELLO Sanzio. (b. 1483, Urbino, d. 1520, Roma)
The Fire in the Borgo. 1514. resco, width at base: 670 cm
Stanza dell'Incendio di Borgo, Palazzi Pontifici, Vatican
RAFFAELLO Sanzio. (b. 1483,
Urbino, d. 1520, Roma)
The Fire in the Borgo. 1514. resco,
width at base: 670 cm
Stanza dell'Incendio di Borgo, Palazzi
Pontifici, Vatican
Aeneas flees burning Troy, Federico Barocci, 1598.
Bernini, Gianlorenzo
Aeneas, Anchises, and Ascanius
1618-19
Marble
height 86 5/8" (2.2 m)
Galleria Borghese, Rome
LOO, Carle van
French painter (b.
1705, Nice, d. 1765,
Paris)
Aeneas Carrying
Anchises
1729
Oil on canvas, 110 x
105 cm
Musée du Louvre, Paris
BERNINI, Gian Lorenzo
(b. 1598, Napoli, d. 1680, Roma)
Aeneas, Anchises, and Ascanius
1618-19
Marble, height: 220 cm
Galleria Borghese, Rome