Unknown artist, nineteenth centuryFormerly John Martin, 1789–1854, British
Title:
Aeneas and the Sibyl
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
Subject Terms:
hero | initiation | allegory | costume | religious and mythological subject | fire | nudes | men | battle | Classical | mythology | light | Aeneas' visit to the underworld | group portrait | wisdom | hell | women | death | cave | underworld | the arrival of Aeneas at Cumae, where they consult Deiphobe, the Cumaean Sibyl, who foretells of Aeneas' wars in Latium | sibyl | dead | souls | legend
Associated Places:
Styx river
Currently On View:
Not on view
Publications:
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)