Jan Brueghel the Younger painting, 1630s
Aeneas and the Sibyl in the Underworld |
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Artist | Jan Brueghel the Younger |
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Year | 1630s |
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Medium | Oil on copper |
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Dimensions | 27 cm × 35.88 cm (10.5 in × 14.125 in) |
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Aeneas and the Sibyl in the Underworld is an artwork by Jan Brueghel the Younger painted in the 1630s.[1]
The painting has been in the collection of the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City since 1991.[1] The painting has not dissimilar composition to a painting of the same subject made circa 1600 by his father Jan Brueghel the Elder, held at the Kunsthistorisches Museum in Vienna.[2] Elder, in turn, was inspired by the necrogeographies of Hieronymous Bosch.[3] The painting draws upon imagery from Aeneid § Book 6: Underworld, an epic poem written in ancient Rome by Publius Vergilius Maro. Aeneas, the protagonist, is being guided through Hades by the Cumaean Sibyl, a temple priestess.[1]
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