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Aeneas Going to Battle
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About this work
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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Credit lineAeneas Going to Battle. 1667. Gerard de Lairesse. Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam. Public domain.
