# View of the room of Virgil [View the canonical artwork record]() ## Artwork - Artist: [TIEPOLO, Giovanni Battista]() - Date: 1701-1750 - Technique: Fresco ## Commentary The third room on the ground floor of the Palazzina was painted by Giovanni Battista Tiepolo with scenes after Virgil's Aeneid, depicting the legend of Aeneas. The scenes in this room are Mercury Appearing to Aeneas, Aeneas Introducing Cupid Dressed as Ascanius to Dido \(scenes shown in the present photo\), Venus Appearing to Aeneas on the Shores of Carthage, and Aeneas Encounters His Mother, Venus, in the Form of a Huntress. ## Related artworks - [A Seated Man and a Girl with a Pitcher]() - [Abraham and the Three Angels]() - [Abraham Praying before the Three Angels]() - [Adoration of the Magi]() - [Aeneas Introducing Cupid Dressed as Ascanius to Dido \(detail\)]() - [Aeneas Introducing Cupid Dressed as Ascanius to Dido \(detail\)]() - [Aeneas Introducing Cupid Dressed as Ascanius to Dido]() - [Aeneas Introducing Cupid Dressed as Ascanius to Dido]() - [Allegory of Merit Accompanied by Nobility and Virtue \(detail\)]() - [Allegory of Merit Accompanied by Nobility and Virtue \(detail\)]() - [Allegory of Merit Accompanied by Nobility and Virtue]() - [Allegory of Merit Accompanied by Nobility and Virtue]() ## Attribution [Web Gallery of Art]()