Aeneid After Mitelli And Carracci, Framed Engravings, 18th Century

Suite of 5 framed engravings recounting episodes from the Aeneid, journey of the hero Aeneas after the fall of Troy, after Virgil

*"Ecce trahunt manibus victum post terga simonem": the Trojans capture Sinon, a Greek slave who claims to have been abandoned as an offering with the horse in front of Troy.
Mentions “Carac inu” and “Gvc Mitelli”
Folds, tears and stains 

*"At Venus AEnaam certantem ex igne recepit IIII" Venus saves her son Aeneas from the flames: son of the goddess of Love, she will help him throughout the Trojan War and his journey to Italy
Mentions “Carac inu” and “Gvc Mitelli”
Folds, foxing and stains 

*Aeneas meets the ghost of Créuse: Aeneas flees Troy carrying his father Anchises on his back, his wife Créuse follows with their child. Aeneas loses sight of his wife, and returns to Troy to find her, but she has been killed: her ghost appears to Aeneas to predict his next journeys and the search for a new homeland.
Mentions “Carac inu” and “Gvc Mitelli”
Folds and stains 

*"Crelicolum regi mactat in tittore taurum VII" Aeneas sacrifices a bull to the god Apollo, to travel under good omens
Mentions “Carac inu” and “Gvc Mitelli fec”
Folds, foxing and stains 

*"Arpya celebri lapsu de ontibus adfunt X" Aeneas and his companions fight the Harpies
At the fall of Troy, Aeneas receives a prophecy according to which he will found a new city (Rome). After a long journey, he and his companions arrive at the Strophades Islands, where harpies, monsters with the bodies of vultures and the heads of women, lived at the time. As they prepare to eat the hunted game, they are attacked by Harpies.
Aeneas ordered his men to fight the harpies, but their weapons could not harm them. 
Mentions “Carac inu” and “Gvc Mitelli”
Folds, foxing and stains 

Dimensions with frame: 69.5 x 45cm

Giuseppe Maria Mitelli (1634-1718) was an Italian painter and engraver famous for his engravings based on Carracci's masterpieces

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