This is an introduction to The Aeneid through art.

1. Virgil’s Aeneid

2. Virgil
70-19 BCE

3. Virgil Reading the Aeneid to Augustus and Octavia
Angelica Kauffmann, 1788

4. The Aeneid
30-19 BCE

6. Juno Ordering Aeolus to Release the Winds
François Boucher, 1769

7. Aeneas and Achates on the Libyan Coast
Dosso Dossi, c. 1515

8. Venus Appearing to Aeneas as a Huntress
Pietro da Cortona, 1631

9. Dido Building Carthage, or The Rise of the Carthaginian Empire
J. M. W. Turner, 1815

10. The Meeting of Dido and Aeneas
Sir Nathaniel Dance-Holland, 1766

11. Aeneas Introducing Cupid Disguised as Ascanius to Dido
Giovanni Battista Tiepolo, 1757

12. Aeneas Tells Dido the Misfortunes of Troy
Pierre-Narcisse Guérin, 1815

13. Aeneas and his Father Fleeing Troy
Simon Vouet, c. 1635

14. Aeneas’s Flight from Troy
Federico Barocci, 1598

15. Dido and Aeneas
Jean Raoux, 18th c.

16. Dido and Aeneas
Theodoor van Thulden, 17th c.

17. Landscape with Dido and Aeneas
Thomas Jones, 1769

18. Landscape with Union of Dido and Aeneas
Gaspard Dughet and Carlo Maratta, c. 1668

19. Aeneas and Dido in the Cave
Pierre Lacour, 1774

20. Aeneas’s Farewell to Dido in Carthage
Claude Lorrain, 1676

21. The Death of Dido
Joseph Stallaert, 1872

22. Aeneas and the Sibyl in the Underworld
Jan Brueghel the Younger, c. 1630s

23. Aeneas and Anchises in Hades
Alexander Ubeleski, 17th c.

24. Aeneas at the Court of Latinus
Ferdinand Bol, 1663

25. Latinus Offers Aeneas His Daughter Lavinia in Marriage
Francesco de Mura, 18th c.

26. Venus at Vulcan’s Forge
Bartholomäus Spranger, c. 1610

27. Vulcan Presenting Arms to Venus for Aeneas
François Boucher, 1756

28. Venus Presenting Arms to Aeneas
Nicolas Poussin, 1639

29. Aeneas Conquering Turnus
Luca Giordano, 17th c.