The Dream of Aeneas
Giovanni Battista Tiepolo
€39,90
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- 380g/m² cotton canvas — certified museum quality
- Solid wood stretcher bar with 0.75” gallery wrap
- HD Giclée print — colour-true to the original
- Ready to hang — hanging hardware included
The Dream of Aeneas, painted between 1660 and 1665 by the Neapolitan master Salvator Rosa, depicts an episode from Virgil's Aeneid in which the river god Tiberinus appears to the sleeping Trojan hero Aeneas, urging him onward toward his destiny in Italy. Rosa, celebrated for his wild, untamed landscapes and his fiercely independent artistic temperament, brings a brooding, dramatic intensity to this moment of divine intervention.
Working on a grand scale, Rosa surrounds the dreaming hero with a darkly atmospheric landscape and turbulent sky, characteristic of his highly personal and unconventional approach to history painting. His deliberate cultivation of the wild and sublime in nature, paired with unusual and philosophically charged subject matter, set Rosa apart from the more classicizing tendencies of his Baroque contemporaries and prefigured the Romantic sensibility that would emerge more than a century later.
Held in the collection of The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, this museum-quality stretched canvas reproduction is printed on premium matte canvas and hand-wrapped around a solid 0.75-inch gallery wrap frame — ready to hang and built to last.
| Artist | Salvator Rosa |
| Year | 1660–65 |
| Medium | Oil on canvas |
| Dimensions | 77 1/2 x 47 1/2 in. (196.9 x 120.7 cm) |
| Collection | The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York |
| Movement | Baroque |
