# Aeneas, Anchises, and Ascanius [View the canonical artwork record]() ## Artwork - Artist: [BERNINI, Gian Lorenzo]() - Date: 1601-1650 - Technique: Marble, height 220 cm ## Commentary This is the first work Bernini made for Cardinal Scipione Caffarelli Borghese. In contrast to Raphael's famous fresco of this motif in the Stanza of the Vatican Palace, Bernini's sculpture remains extraordinarily close to Virgil's text, apparent in the Phrygian headgear of Anchises, a reference to his eastern origins, as well as the fact that he is being carried on Aeneas' shoulders \(Anchises had been made lame by an avenging bolt of lightning from Jupiter\). Aeneas' exemplary conduct may be an allusion to the name of the work's patron, Scipione \(staff, support\). ## Related artworks - [A portrait of a Man]() - [A seated male nude]() - [Aeneas, Anchises, and Ascanius \(detail\)]() - [Aeneas, Anchises, and Ascanius]() - [Altar Cross]() - [Angel]() - [Angel with the Column]() - [Angel with the Crown of Thorns]() - [Angel with the Superscription]() - [Angels on Ponte Sant'Angelo]() - [Apollo and Daphne \(detail\)]() - [Apollo and Daphne]() ## Attribution [Web Gallery of Art]()