Art Project select from one of the following pieces of artwork prepare a class presentation in which you: – read aloud a literal translation of the lines indicated that have to do with the image you selected – read aloud the Latin lines in dactylic hexameter – explain (write a paragraph, i.e. 5+ sentences beforehand and read aloud to class) what your picture has to do with the corresponding Latin lines – introduce the artist who is responsible for the image, where he/ she’s from, what year he/ she was born, and three other interesting facts about the artist – introduce the artwork itself, its title, what year it was created, where one can now go see it, and three other interesting facts about the work of art not already mentioned anywhere else in the presentation.
1. The Judgment of Paris, Max Klingner, Aeneid I.12-33
2. Juno and Aeolus, Eugene Delacroix, Aeneid I.64-80
3. Aeneas in a Storm, George J. Hagar, Aeneid I
4. Neptune Calming the Waves, Adam Lambert-Sigisbert Aeneid I
5. The Birth of Venus, Sandro Botticelli, Aeneid I
6. Venus Hunting Appears to Aeneas, Pietro da Cortona, Aeneid I
7. Dido Building Carthage, J.M.W. Turner, Aeneid I
8. Aeneas telling Dido of his Misfortunes at Troy, Pierre Narcisse Guerin, Aeneid II.1-13
9. Laocoon, El Greco Aeneid II
10. The Procession of the Trojan Horse in Troy, Domenico Tiepolo, Aeneid II
11. The Death of Priam, Pierre Narcisse Guerin, Aeneid II
12. Aeneas flees burning Troy, Federico Barocci, Aeneid II
13. Aeneas Fleeing Troy, Pompeo Batoni, Aeneid II
14. Dido and Aeneas, Jean Raoux, Aeneid IV
15. Fama, Sebastian Barnt, Aeneid IV
16. Mercury Appearing to Aeneas, Giovanni Battista Tiepolo, Aeneid IV
17. Death of Dido, Giovanni Francesco Guercino, Aeneid IV
18. Landscape with the Fall of Icarus, Peter Brueghel the Elder, Aeneid VI.14-33
19. The Cumaean Sibyl, Michelangelo Buonarroti, Aeneid VI.62-76
20. On Lake Avernus, Richard Wilson, Aeneid VI
21. Aeneas Discovering the Golden Bough, H.M. Brock, Aeneid VI
22. Aeneas and Dido in the Underworld, Wenzel Hollar, Aeneid VI
23. Vergil Reciting from the Aeneid, Jean Auguste-Dominque Ingres, Aeneid VI
24. Aeneas and the Sibyl in the Underworld, Jan Brueghel the Elder, Aeneid VI
25. The Mourning of Pallas, Anne-Louis Girodet Trioson, Aeneid X
26. Pallas, Evander’s Son, Angelika Kauffman, Aeneid X
27. Aeneas defeats Turnus, Luca Giordano, Aeneid XII