Art Project select from one of the following

Art Project • select from one of the following pieces of artwork • prepare a class presentation in which you: – read aloud a literal translation of the lines indicated that have to do with the image you selected – read aloud the Latin lines in dactylic hexameter – explain (write a paragraph, i. e. 5+ sentences beforehand read aloud to class) what your picture has to do with the corresponding Latin lines – introduce the artist who is responsible for the image, where he/ she’s from, what year he/ she was born, and three other interesting facts about the artist – introduce the artwork itself, its title, what year it was created, where one can now go see it, and three other interesting facts about the work of art not already mentioned anywhere else in the presentation.

1. The Judgment of Paris, Max Klingner, Aeneid I. 12 -33

2. Juno and Aeolus, Eugene Delacroix, Aeneid I. 64 -80

3. Aeneas in a Storm, George J. Hagar, Aeneid I. 81 -101

4. Neptune Calming the Waves, Adam Lambert-Sigisbert Aeneid I. 124 -141

5. The Birth of Venus, Sandro Botticelli, Aeneid I. 254 -266

6. Venus Hunting Appears to Aeneas, Pietro da Cortona, Aeneid I. 312 -324

7. Dido Building Carthage, J. M. W. Turner, Aeneid I. 421 -437

8. Aeneas telling Dido of his Misfortunes at Troy, Pierre Narcisse Guerin, Aeneid II. 1 -13

9. Laocoon, El Greco Aeneid II. 201 -227

10. The Procession of the Trojan Horse in Troy, Domenico Tiepolo, Aeneid II. 228 -245

11. The Death of Priam, Pierre Narcisse Guerin, Aeneid II. 533 -558

12. Aeneas flees burning Troy, Federico Barocci, Aeneid II. 559 -566

13. Aeneas Fleeing Troy, Pompeo Batoni, Aeneid II. 768 -795

14. Dido and Aeneas, Jean Raoux, Aeneid IV. 160 -172

15. Fama, Sebastian Barnt, Aeneid IV. 173 -197

16. Mercury Appearing to Aeneas, Giovanni Battista Tiepolo, Aeneid IV. 259 -278

17. Death of Dido, Giovanni Francesco Guercino, Aeneid IV. 672 -687

18. Landscape with the Fall of Icarus, Peter Brueghel the Elder, Aeneid VI. 14 -33

19. The Cumaean Sibyl, Michelangelo Buonarroti, Aeneid VI. 62 -76

20. On Lake Avernus, Richard Wilson, Aeneid VI. 124 -136

21. Aeneas Discovering the Golden Bough, H. M. Brock, Aeneid VI. 185 -204

22. Aeneas and Dido in the Underworld, Wenzel Hollar, Aeneid VI. 450 -476

23. Vergil Reciting from the Aeneid, Jean Auguste-Dominque Ingres, Aeneid VI. 872 -886

24. Aeneas and the Sibyl in the Underworld, Jan Brueghel the Elder, Aeneid VI. 893 -901

25. The Mourning of Pallas, Anne-Louis Girodet Trioson, Aeneid X. 474 -589

26. Pallas, Evander’s Son, Angelika Kauffman, Aeneid X. 490 -509

27. Aeneas defeats Turnus, Luca Giordano, Aeneid XII. 936 -952