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:
costume | group portrait | nudes | cave | allegory | mythology | light | hell | Classical | hero | men | women | initiation | death | battle | fire | the arrival of Aeneas at Cumae, where they consult Deiphobe, the Cumaean Sibyl, who foretells of Aeneas' wars in Latium | religious and mythological subject | souls | Aeneas' visit to the underworld | sibyl | underworld | wisdom | dead | 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)