Wide-rimmed bowl with figures from Virgil's Aeneid 1525 Workshop of Maestro Giorgio Andreoli In Virgil’s Aeneid, humans are subject to the whims of the gods. This bowl belongs to a service featuring characters from the tale, and the artist ingeniously used the bowl's divided surface to depict the dual realms of heaven and earth. Humans are restricted to the deep central well, and gods to the broad, flat rim. Here, the mortal Anchises leans on his staff, while divine Juno and Aeolus are pictured among the Wide-rimmed bowl with figures from Virgil's Aeneid 198787

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