This painting shows a landscape with castle-like structures on a green hill, with a group of people gathering in colorful clothing in the bottom left. The people are indistinct, painted in shades of red, brown, and blue, with no visible facial features. Two objects appear in the center of the groups of people: a low cream-colored object and a square brown object. One of the large buildings to the right of center appears to be under construction. Green trees are scattered across the ground and hills. Some of the green, building-lined hills on the left are separated from the rest of the land…
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The Trojans Building the Temple to Venus and Making Offerings at Anchises's Grave in Sicily

Dosso Dossi (Ferrarese, active 1512 - 1542)

c. 1520

Medium
oil on canvas
Classification
Painting
Dimensions
overall: 59.4 × 85.6 cm (23 3/8 × 33 11/16 in.) ; framed: 83.5 × 205.3 × 8.5 cm (32 7/8 × 80 13/16 × 3 3/8 in.)
Culture
Italian
Museum
National Gallery of Art, CIS-R
Credit line
Purchased as the Gift of Anonymous
Rights
Public domain (NGA Open Access, CC0), as the museum states it.
Who can see it
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