- 271
After Pietro Berrettini, called Pietro da Cortona
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Description
- Pietro Berrettini, called Pietro da Cortona
- The death of Turnus
- oil on canvas
Catalogue Note
A period copy after Cortona's fresco in the Palazzo Doria Pamphili, Rome (see G. Briganti, Pietro da Cortona, Florence 1982, p. 250, cat. no. 251, illustrated plate 251).
In the final book of Homer's Aeneid, Turnus, king of the Rutuli and chief antagonist of Aeneas, is killed by the Greek hero.
In the final book of Homer's Aeneid, Turnus, king of the Rutuli and chief antagonist of Aeneas, is killed by the Greek hero.