Enlightened Eclecticism: The Grand
Design of the 1st Duke and Duchess of
Northumberland
By Adriano Aymonino. 400 pp. incl. 285 col. +
b. & w. ills. (Yale University Press, New Haven and
London, 2021), £50. ISBN 978–1–913107–17–8. |
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Plate I. Limoges Enamels of the Aeneid series at Alnwick. A The signal for war given by Turnus from the citadel of Laurentum. "Rauco strepuerunt cornua cantu."
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Plate I. Limoges Enamels of the Aeneid series at Alnwick. B The sacrificial feast of Evander before the walls of Pallantium interrupted by the arrival of Aeneas and his fleet; Pallas, son of Evander, challenging Aeneas, who answers from the poop of his vessel. "Tum pater Aeneas puppi sic futur ab alta"
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Plate II. Limoges Enamels of the Aeneid series at Alnwick. C Pallas conducts Aeneas from the ship to his father. "Exceptique manu dextramque amplexus inhaesit"
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Plate II. Limoges Enamels of the Aeneid series at Alnwick. D Evander relating to Aeneas how Fauns and wild men once dwelt in the land. "Haec nemora indigenae Fauni Nymphaeque tenebant"
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Plate III. Limoges Enamels of the Aeneid series at Alnwick. E Venus making a sign with thunder and the flashing of arms in the heavens to Evander and Pallas with Aeneas and Achates. "Arma inter nubem.... rutilare vident et pulsa tonare"
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Plate III. Limoges Enamels of the Aeneid series at Alnwick. F Evander bidding farewell to Pallas who rides forth with Aeneas and Achates to meet Tarcho and the Etruscans appearing from a grove in the background. "Ipse agmine Pallas In medio, chlamyde et pictis conspectus in armis." (The six plaques belong to the Duchess of Northumberland)