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Aeneas Breaks Off the Golden Bough
From the collection of Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam. Free to download, adapt and use — no permission needed.
About this work
Aeneas and his friend Achates are in the forest of Proserpina. Aeneas breaks a branch from a tree. A little dove holds a twig from that branch in her beak. He needs the branch to hide behind it on his way to the underworld.
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Credit lineAeneas breekt de gouden tak af. 1633 - 1692. Cornelis Bloemaert (II). Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam. Public domain.
