> Can anyone provide me with references to medieval artistic depictions of
> Virgil, particularly to any which represent him as a magician?
>
> Thank you! -- George
Dear George,
Does your interest in the medieval Virgil also include the wonderful
story of Virgil and the Emperor Augustus' daughter, who left him
hanging in a basket underneath her window all night as a punishment
for his amorous advances? There are two wonderful scenes on this
subject in an early fourteenth-century German tapestry depicting women's
wiles, in the Augustinermuseum in Freiburg. Not magic as such but a
far cry from the classical poet.
Sophie Oosterwijk
Department of the History of Art
University of Leicester
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