The Golden Bough
Oil on Canvas
No.812
The painting is based on an incident in Virgil’s poem, the Aeneid. Aeneas has come to Cumae to consult the Sibyl. She tells him that, if he wants to enter the Underworld to meet his father, he must give Proserpine a golden bough cut from a sacred tree.
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