Aeneas breaks the Golden Branch
2021.05.7
Engraving
Paperink
2021.05
Art Museum of Greater Lafayette
Gift
Art Museum of Greater Lafayette
Cornelis Bloemaert
Print Maker
Giovanni Francesco Romanelli
After a painting by
Painter
1625 - 1692
Inscription
lower left
Fran: Romanell: Viterb del C. Bloemaert sculpt. Romae
Latin
Francesco Romanell: Viterb[o] with C. Bloemaert carved Rome
EngravedInk
Graphic Documents
Documentary Objects
Category 08: Communication Objects
11-1/2 in
15-1/2 in
BlackWhite
Source Notes
Information provided by source.
Acquired by the Art Museum of Greater Lafayette in 1979 {1}; donated to Purdue University Galleries in 2021 {1} now known was Greater Lafayette Art Museum (GLAM)
Purdue University Galleries
A Legacy of Gifting: Donations From the Art Museum of Greater Lafayette (2023)
Wunderkammer: Introduction to Curatorial Practices Class Fall 2024 (2025)
Exhibition label
Cornelis Bloemaert (1603-1692), Dutch after Giovanni Francesco Romanelli (1610-1662), Italian Aeneas Breaks the Golden Branch, 1633 Ink on paper engraving 2021.05.07 Bloemaert came from a family of Dutch Golden Age engravers. He moved to Rome in 1633 and worked with Baroque painters such as Romanelli. One of his students was Giles Rousselet whose mythical scene is also on view. Here the Trojan hero and founder of Rome, Aeneas reaches up to break the branch of a tree. His mother, the goddess Venus is visible in the upper left, sending two doves to aid him. He needs the golden branch to enter the underworld to speak to the spirit of his deceased father. Romanelli produced several paintings from different episodes of Aeneas’s life
