# Aeneas and Anchises

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## Artwork

- Artist: [SPADA, Lionello](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/spada-lionello-rcb3e716baac096>)
- Date: 1601-1650
- Technique: Oil on canvas, 195 x 132 cm

## Commentary

Spada, trained by the Carracci in Bologna, discovered Caravaggio in Rome, and established a synthesis of their styles: in Aeneas and Anchises the dramatic tension sustained by a violent chiaroscuro is combined with classical colours and rigour.

## Related artworks

- [Martyrdom of St Peter](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/spada-lionello-rcb3e716baac096/martyrdom-of-st-peter-r8e08127af07215>)
- [St Jerome](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/spada-lionello-rcb3e716baac096/st-jerome-r751d87b0c84417>)
- [The Concert](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/spada-lionello-rcb3e716baac096/the-concert-r1f8d6dc8f070f5>)
- [The Gypsy Fortune Teller](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/spada-lionello-rcb3e716baac096/the-gypsy-fortune-teller-rbf51c9be967a83>)

## Attribution

[Web Gallery of Art](<https://beta.wga.hu/pages/about>)