Gaius Cilnius Maecenas, friend and political advisor to Octavian (later Emperor Augustus) and patron of a new generation of Augustan poets, Horace and Virgil, c. 70-8 BC. Mecenas. Copperplate engraving by Philipp Kilian after an illustration by Joachim von Sandrart from his L’Academia Todesca, della Architectura, Scultura & Pittura, oder Teutsche Academie, der Edlen Bau- Bild- und Mahlerey-Kunste, German Academy of Architecture, Sculpture and Painting, Jacob von Sandrart, Nuremberg, 1675.

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