Virgil reading his Aeneid to Augustus by Jean-Bruno Gassies

Painting of a poet in white reading a scroll to a seated laurel-crowned ruler in a columned classical hall.

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Virgil reading his Aeneid to Augustus, Jean-Bruno Gassies (1814), ffc1d430576e5100bd6fe085f4bf90af. Via artnap.com

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This painting shows a poet in a white toga reading from a scroll to a seated laureate-crowned ruler in red robes, while a young woman in orange and a figure in green look on within a colonnaded classical hall.

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1814

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Painting

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Public domain