There is a 1508 woodcut depicting a Virgil laureatus presenting the Aeneid to Octavianus, with Mecenas to his left and Pollio to his right:
P.V.M. Omnia opera [...] Impressum Venetiis per Bartolomeum de Zannis de Portesio.. M.D. VIII. Die .iii. Augusti. For a full description of the print and a reproduction of the woodcut, see: Bernd Schneider, ed. Vergil. Handschriften und Drucke der Herzog August Bibliothek. Braunschweig: Waisenhaus-Buchdruckerei, 1982: 58 and 67. >I am writing to ask if any members of this list-serve can identify for me >renaissance paintings or engravings after paintings which depict Virgil >reading the Aeneid to the court of Augustus Caesar. This seems to be a >theme for 18th- and 19th-century French paintings but I think that I've >seen a renaissance image of this scene and cannot now find the image. > >Many thanks, > >Steve Zwicker >email:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > >----------------------------------------------------------------------- >To leave the Mantovano mailing list at any time, do NOT hit reply. >Instead, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message >"unsubscribe mantovano" in the body (omitting the quotation marks). You >can also unsubscribe at http://virgil.org/mantovano/mantovano.htm#unsub Susanne Hafner Universitaet Hamburg ----------------------------------------------------------------------- To leave the Mantovano mailing list at any time, do NOT hit reply. Instead, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message "unsubscribe mantovano" in the body (omitting the quotation marks). You can also unsubscribe at http://virgil.org/mantovano/mantovano.htm#unsub
