Léonard Limosin - Aeneas - Walters 44239

This plaque represents the great Trojan hero who fled with his companions to Italy where he founded the city of Rome. He is pictured wearing a plumed helmet, a breast-plate enriched with a lion's mask, and a mantle fastened on his left shoulder by an intaglio brooch. A companion plaque of Aeneas' lover, Dido, Queen of Carthage, also belongs to the Walters collection (Walters 44.240).