Publius Vergilius Maro
Works:
• Aeneidos (Latin)
◊ The Aeneid (English)
• Eclogae (Latin)
◊ The Bucolics and Eclogues (English)
• Georgicon (Latin)
◊ The Georgics (English)
Quotes:
Virgil in Art:
Bernini, Gian Lorenzo (1598-1680)
Enea, Anchise e Ascanio
1619
Galleria Borghese, Roma
Blake, William (1757-1827)
The Pastorals of Virgil
1821
Princeton University Art Museum, Princeton
Bouguereau, William (1825-1905)
Dante et Virgile
1850
Musée d’Orsay, Paris
Brueghel, Jan the Younger (1601-1678)
Aeneas and the Sibyl in the Underworld
1630s
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
Caravaggio (1571-1610)
Amor Vincit Omnia
1601–1602
Gemäldegalerie, Berlin
Cézanne, Paul (1839-1906)
Enée rencontre Didon à Carthage
c.1875
Princeton University Art Museum, Princeton
Delacroix, Eugène (1798-1863)
Dante et Virgile aux enfers
1822
Musée du Louvre, Paris
Lairesse, Gérard de (1641-1711)
Venus Giving Arms to Aeneas
1668
Museum Mayer van den Bergh, Antwerp
Manet, Édouard (1832-1883)
La Barque de Dante, d’après Delacroix
c.1855
Musée des Beaux-Arts, Lyon
Manet, Édouard (1832-1883)
La Barque de Dante, d’après Delacroix
c.1859
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
Millais, John Everett (1829-1896)
Aeneas Shown the Body of Pallas
1843
Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland
Poussin, Nicolas (1594-1665)
Le Triomphe de Silène
c.1636
National Gallery, London
Ribera, Jusepe de (1591-1652)
Il Poeta
c.1620–1621
Princeton University Art Museum, Princeton
Rossetti, Dante Gabriel (1828-1882)
Paolo and Francesca da Rimini
1855
Tate Britain, London
Rubens, Peter Paul (1577-1640)
Aeneas in the underworld
s.d.
National Museum Wales, Cardiff
Tiepolo, Giambattista (1696-1770)
Latino offre in matrimonio Lavinia a Enea
1753–1754
Statens Museum for Kunst, Copenhagen
Tiziano (c.1488-1576)
Sisifo
1548–1549
Museo del Prado, Madrid
Turner, Joseph (1775-1851)
Dido building Carthage
1815
National Gallery, London
| Born | October 15 | 70 BC | Andes, Mantova (Italia) |
| Died | September 21 | 19 BC | Brindisi (Italia) |
| Occupation | Poet | Writer |