The painting depicts (from right to left) the roman emperor augustus, his sister octavia the younger, and his wife livia listening to virgil reading book vi of the aeneid. According to aelius donatus's biography of virgil, when the poet read the lines about octavia's son marcellus who had died unexpectedly, octavia fainted. Object Type: painting. Genre: mythological painting. Date: circa 1814.. Dimensions: height: 138 cm (54.3 in); width: 142 cm (55.9 in). Medium: oil on canvas. Depicted People: Augustus. Collection: Royal Museums of Fine Arts of Belgium.
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