Hello, All,
By all accounts, K'zoo 2016 was wonderful, as always. I'm sorry to have missed it, but hope to get there next year! In the meantime, I have a query: How common or uncommon is it for English Renaissance treatments of Aeneas to depict him as a nursing infant at Venus' breast? Is there any particular iconographic tradition around such a scene?
I have checked with one expert on this; he can't think offhand of any Renaissance instances of this treatment but referred me to a source that turned up one 8thC example of Venus' nursing of Aeneas.
Many thanks, in advance,
Judith Owens
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