1. Aeneas, Anchises and Ascanius
Artist: Gian Lorenzo Bernini
Date:
Material: marble
Dimensions: 220cm
Location: Galleria Borghese, Rome

2. Description
The sculpture represents Aeneas escaping from the burning city of Troy bearing his father Anchises on his shoulders, and his son Ascanius carrying the sacred fire of the native land while Anchises holds the penates, family household gods.

3. Libro
Ergo age, care pater, cervici imponere nostrae: ipse subibo umeris nec me labor iste gravabit.
Quo resse cumque cadent, unum et commune periclum,
Una salus ambobus erit. Mihi, parvus iulus
Sit come et longe servet vestigia coniunx.
Vos, famuli, quae dicam, animis advetite vestris.
Est urbe egressis tumulus templumque vetustrum
Desertae cereris iuctaque antiqua cupressus,
Religione patrum multus servata per annos
Hanc ex diverso sedem veniemus in unam.
Tu, genitor, cape sacra manu patriosque penatis;
Me, bello e tanto digressum et caede recenti,
Ad trectare nefas, donec me flumine vivo Abluero.
Haec vatus lato umeros subiectaque colla
Veste super fulvique insternor pelle leonis
Succedoque oneri; dextrae se parvus Iulius
Impliquit sequiturque patrem non passibus aequis;