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The Poet Virgil in a Basket
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The Poet Virgil in a Basket

Lucas van Leyden · 1525 · engraving; paper

From the collection of Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam. Free to download, adapt and use — no permission needed.

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The sorcerer Virgil fell madly in love with the daughter of a Roman emperor. The girl pretended to return his feelings: she would raise him to her bedroom in a basket at night. Instead, she lifted him halfway up the tower wall, and left him hanging there. Thanks to the glances of the scoffing onlookers in the foreground we can discern the dangling Virgil in the distance.

Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam’s own description
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printPublius Vergilius MaroVirgil in the basket
Credit lineThe Poet Virgil in a Basket. 1525. Lucas van Leyden. Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam. Public domain.
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