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 LAcademia 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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Caption: 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 LAcademia 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.

Personalities: VERGIL (-70--19)

Credit: Album / Florilegius

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Image size: 5011 × 5253 px | 75.3 MB

Print size: 42.4 × 44.5 cm | 1972.8 × 2068.1 in (300 dpi)

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