
Cleveland Museum of Art
Neptune Calming the Tempest That Aeolus Raised Against Aeneas's Fleet
Marcantonio RaimondiLinkedCulture matchlcp-0209090d3d3a
- Date
- c. 1515–16
- Medium
- engraving
- Culture
- Italy, 16th century
- Department
- Prints
- Institution
- Cleveland Museum of Art
- Object ID
- 112105
From the Cleveland Museum of Art record
This engraving depicts an episode in the epic Aeneid by the Roman poet Virgil (70–19 BC). Skimming the ocean waves in a seashell chariot, Neptune raises his trident as he confronts the cherub-faced winds sent by their master, Aeolus. Although some of the Trojan fleet is lost in the waves, Neptune calms the tempest in time to save Aeneas and a few of his ships as they escape the fallen city of Troy in search of a new home.
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- Credit line
- Dudley P. Allen Fund
- Provenance
- ?-1930: (M. Knoedler & Co., Inc., New York, NY) | October 27, 1930: The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
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