Apr 10
Venus Brings Healing Herbs to the Wounded Aeneas
Artist: Hendrik Krock (Danish, 1671 – 1738
Date: 1706
Medium: Oil on canvas
Collection: Statens Museum for Kunst, Copenhagen, Denmark
Description
In Virgil's Aeneid (Book XII), the goddess Venus heals her son, the Trojan hero Aeneas, after he is wounded by an arrow in battle. She secretly brings Cretan dittany (Dictamnus), a medicinal herb, and adds it to the healer Iapyx’s water to instantly cure the wound and restore his strength, allowing him to return to battle.
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