The Winter - Juno beseeches to destroy Eneas' Fleet
1850 São Paulo Museum of Art
About this artwork
This dramatic oil painting depicts a mythological scene from Virgil's Aeneid, showing the goddess Juno in the upper right, inciting a storm to destroy Aeneas's fleet, with figures struggling on a rocky coast and in the turbulent sea below.
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This painting likely depicts a scene from Virgil's Aeneid, where the goddess Juno, wrathful at Aeneas, implores Aeolus, god of winds (perhaps the crowned figure on the rocks), to unleash a storm and scatter the Trojan fleet. This dramatic subject was a favorite of Romantic painters like Delacroix, allowing for intense emotion and powerful visual storytelling.
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The Winter - Juno beseeches to destroy Eneas' Fleet
Eugène Delacroix, 1850
