Artwork Title: Aeneas' Flight from Troy

Aeneas' Flight from Troy, 1598

Federico Barocci

Barrocci's Aeneas' Flight from Troy with Anchises, his son Ascanius and his wife Creusa is the second version painted in 1598 of a picture executed 10 years earlier for Emperor Rudolf II of Austria. Cardinal Giuliano della Rovere presented Cardinal Scipione with this second version, which entered the Borghese collection before 1613. It was this painting that inspired Cardinal Scipione to commission a large marble group on the same subject from Gian Lorenzo Bernini. The myth of Aeneas, ancestor of Romulus and Remus, referred to the birth of Rome and thus confirmed the Borghese family's high status in the city. Barrocci's many drawings of nature led him to achieve a spontaneity and naturalness in movement, color and airy effects, and a silvery luminosity that was to influence the 17th-century masters, particularly Rubens. Never before had flames been painted so realistically, with an energy suggesting even the crackle of the fire, from...(https://www.wga.hu/html_m/b/barocci/aeneas.html)
70 x 100 in
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