Aeneas bears his father Anchises on his shoulders. Anchises, in turn, carries the ashes of their ancestors, and behind them follows Aeneas’ son, Ascanius, carrying the eternal flame of Troy. What is ...

Every Aeneas of the last few centuries—the out-of-time hero who inspired Allen Tate—has been replaced with an Antinous. Turnus killed Anchises and is groping Lavinia now.

Aeneas carrying his father Anchises and accompanied by his wife Creusa and his son Ascanius in his flight from Troy SAVE ARTWORK FOLLOW ARTIST OVERVIEW SIMILAR LOTS (51) LOT PERFORMANCE Artist ...

Past Auction Circle of Willem Van Mieris Dutch, 1662–1747 Aeneas carrying his father Anchises from the burning Troy with Ascanius and Creusa Medium oil on copper Size 38.1 x 54 cm. (15 x 21.3 in.) ...

Aeneas repairs his house, but his father Anchises refuses to leave. The head of his son Ascanius briefly catches fire, and this omen is confirmed by a shooting star, which now not even Anchises ...

Created at the end of the 1500s, this print stylistically marks the end of Renaissance art. Barocci’s swirling, emotional composition and the intensity of Agostino’s engraved network of lines ...

Dido, of course, rejects Aeneas because he intially succumbs to Fate's dictum that he leave her, but such conviction can emerge easily as prissiness, and its ruler, destiny, as mere farce.