Untitled  1520

Alfonso d’Este, Duke of Ferrara, commissioned the leading artists of the day to decorate his private study. Dosso was chosen to paint a narrow frieze, high up on the walls, showing scenes from Virgil’s Aeneid. At left, Aeneas and his guide arrive in the paradisical Elysian fields, the reward for the virtuous dead, who are free from care. The hero has travelled to the Under...