Unknown artist, nineteenth century, Aeneas and the Sibyl, ca. 1800
- Title:
- Aeneas and the Sibyl [1985, Cormack, YCBA Concise Catalogue]
- Date:
- ca. 1800
- Materials & Techniques:
- Oil on canvas
- Dimensions:
- 40 3/8 x 55 1/4 inches (102.6 x 140.3 cm)
- Credit Line:
- Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
- Copyright Status:
- Public Domain
- Accession Number:
- B1973.1.40
- Classification:
- Paintings
- Collection:
- Paintings and Sculpture
- Link to Frame:
- B1973.1.40FR
- Subject Terms:
- Aeneas' visit to the underworld | allegory | battle | cave | Classical | costume | dead | death | fire | group portrait | hell | hero | initiation | legend | light | men | mythology | nudes | religious and mythological subject | sibyl | souls | the arrival of Aeneas at Cumae, where they consult Deiphobe, the Cumaean Sibyl, who foretells of Aeneas' wars in Latium | underworld | wisdom | women
- Associated Places:
- Styx river
- Associated People:
- Palinurus
Sibyl of Cumae
Publius Vergilius Maro (70 BC–19 BC), classical Roman poet
Aeneas - Access:
- Not on view
- Link:
- https://collections.britishart.yale.edu/catalog/tms:139
- Export:
- XML
- IIIF Manifest:
- JSON
Malcolm Cormack, Concise Catalogue of Paintings in the Yale Center for British Art, Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, CT, 1985, pp. 38-39, N590.2 .A83 (YCBA) [YCBA]
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