"Aeneas, Anchises and Ascanius" (ca. 1618) Gian Lorenzo Bernini


 

 

 

Bernini's version of Aeneas escaping from Troy with his father Anchises on his shoulders and his son Ascanius toddling alongside. Anchises is carrying the family's household gods. Aeneas is destined to found a new Troy—Rome, but he doesn't know where.

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