# Silius Italicus: De bello punico [View the canonical artwork record]() ## Artwork - Artist: [PESELLINO]() - Date: 1451-1500 - Technique: Manuscript \(Lat. XII. 68\) ## Commentary Silius Italicus: De bello punico c. 1450 Manuscript \(Lat. XII. 68\) Biblioteca Nazionale Marciana, Venice This important manuscript was dismembered in the 18th century. The only important leaf that remains in the codex is folio 3, the frontispiece to the text, which is attributed to Zanobi Strozzi. Of the leaves that were removed, one was recovered and reunited with the manuscript. Its illustration is the work of Pesellino, it shows Mars on a two-wheeled chariot. Pesellino is thought to have executed the other miniatures that are now lost. ## Related artworks - [Beheading of Sts Cosmas and Damian]() - [Christ on the Cross]() - [Episode from the Story of Griselda \(detail\)]() - [Episode from the Story of Griselda]() - [Episode from the Story of Griselda]() - [King Melchior Sailing to the Holy Land]() - [Madonna with Child \(detail\)]() - [Madonna with Child]() - [Predella scenes \(reconstruction\)]() - [Sacra Conversazione]() - [Santa Trinità Altarpiece]() - [Seven Liberal Arts]() ## Attribution [Web Gallery of Art]()