Vergil

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Basic data

  1. Vergilius Maro, Publius Real Name
  2. Virgil Alternative Names
  3. October 15, 70 BCE in Andes bei Mantua
  4. September 21, 19 BCE in Brindisi
  5. Dichter, Schriftsteller
  6. Cremona, Mailand, Rom, Neapel

Iconography

Modern bust of Virgil at the entrance to his crypt in Naples (Source: Wikimedia)
Page from the beginning of the Eclogues in the 5th-century Vergilius Romanus (Source: Wikimedia)
Horace, Virgil and Varius at the house of Maecenas, by Charles Jalabert. (Source: Wikimedia)
Late 17th-century illustration of a passage from the Georgics, by Jerzy Siemiginowski-Eleuter. (Source: Wikimedia)
A 1st-century terracotta expressing the pietas of Aeneas, who carries his aged father and leads his young son (Source: Wikimedia)
Virgil Reading the Aeneid to Augustus, Octavia, and Livia by Jean-Baptiste Wicar, Art Institute of Chicago (Source: Wikimedia)
A 3rd-century Roman mosaic of Virgil seated between Clio and Melpomene (from Hadrumetum [Sousse], Tunisia) (Source: Wikimedia)
The verse inscription at Virgil's tomb was supposedly composed by the poet himself: Mantua me genuit, Calabri rapuere, tenet nunc Parthenope. Cecini pascua, rura, duces. ("Mantua gave me life, the Calabrians took it away, Naples holds me now; I sang of pastures, farms, and commanders" [transl. Bernard Knox]) (Source: Wikimedia)
A 5th-century portrait of Virgil from the Vergilius Romanus (Source: Wikimedia)
Virgil in His Basket, Lucas van Leyden, 1525 (Source: Wikimedia)
Tomb of Virgil in Naples, Italy (Source: Wikimedia)
Bildnis des P. Virgilius Maro, 1701/1800 (Quelle: Digitaler Portraitindex)
Bildnis des Virgilius Maro, unbekannter Künstler - 1601/1750 (Quelle: Digitaler Portraitindex)
Bildnis des Virgilius Maro, unbekannter Künstler - 1601/1750 (Quelle: Digitaler Portraitindex)
Bildnis des Virgilius, 1601/1750 (Quelle: Digitaler Portraitindex)
Bildnis des Virgil, 1601/1750 (Quelle: Digitaler Portraitindex)
Bildnis des Vergilius, Christian Gottfried Zschoch - 1818/1832 (Quelle: Digitaler Portraitindex)
Bildnis des Virgil, Monogrammist AF (1805) - 1805/1875 (Quelle: Digitaler Portraitindex)
Bildnis des Virgilius, Quirin Mark (ungesichert) - 1782/1811 (Quelle: Digitaler Portraitindex)
Bildnis des Virgilius, Christian Gottfried Zschoch - 1818/1832 (Quelle: Digitaler Portraitindex)
Bildnis des Virgilivs, 1751/1850 (Quelle: Digitaler Portraitindex)

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