Aeneas breaks the Golden Branch

Print

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Purdue University Galleries

Name/Title

Aeneas breaks the Golden Branch

Entry/Object ID

2021.05.7

Description

Three men in front looking at a tree to the right. Two cherubs and an angel in the sky. The tree has a banner with an inscription in Latin.

Type of Print

Engraving

Artwork Details

Medium

Paper, ink

Acquisition

Accession

2021.05

Source or Donor

Art Museum of Greater Lafayette

Acquisition Method

Gift

Source (if not Accessioned)

Art Museum of Greater Lafayette

Made/Created

Artist Information

Artist

Cornelis Bloemaert

Role

Print Maker

Artist

Giovanni Francesco Romanelli

Attribution

After a painting by

Role

Painter

Date made

1625 - 1692

Inscription/Signature/Marks

Type

Inscription

Location

lower left

Transcription

Fran: Romanell: Viterb del C. Bloemaert sculpt. Romae

Language

Latin

Translation

Francesco Romanell: Viterb[o] with C. Bloemaert carved Rome

Material/Technique

Engraved, Ink

Lexicon

Nomenclature 4.0

Nomenclature Primary Object Term

Print

Nomenclature Sub-Class

Graphic Documents

Nomenclature Class

Documentary Objects

Nomenclature Category

Category 08: Communication Objects

Dimensions

Height

11-1/2 in

Width

15-1/2 in

Color

Black, White

Provenance

Provenance Detail

Source Notes

Role

Information provided by source.

Notes

Acquired by the Art Museum of Greater Lafayette in 1979 {1}; donated to Purdue University Galleries in 2021 {1} now known was Greater Lafayette Art Museum (GLAM)

Copyright

Type of License

None

Copyright Holder

Purdue University Galleries

Restrictions

In the public domain.

Exhibition

Wunderkammer: Introduction to Curatorial Practices Class Fall 2024 (2025)

Interpretative Labels

Label Type

Exhibition label

Label

Cornelis Bloemaert (1603-1692), Dutch after Giovanni Francesco Romanelli (1610-1662), Italian Aeneas Breaks the Golden Branch, 1633 Ink on paper engraving 2021.05.07 Bloemaert came from a family of Dutch Golden Age engravers. He moved to Rome in 1633 and worked with Baroque painters such as Romanelli. One of his students was Giles Rousselet whose mythical scene is also on view. Here the Trojan hero and founder of Rome, Aeneas reaches up to break the branch of a tree. His mother, the goddess Venus is visible in the upper left, sending two doves to aid him. He needs the golden branch to enter the underworld to speak to the spirit of his deceased father. Romanelli produced several paintings from different episodes of Aeneas’s life