Bay of Baiae, with Apollo and the Cumanean Sibyl

Artist: Joseph Mallord William Turner
Artwork: Bay of Baiae, with Apollo and the Cumanean Sibyl
Description: In Book IV of Virgil’s Aeneid, the hero Aeneas visits the Cumaean Sibyl at her home near Baiae, a town on the coast of Campania, Italy. The Sibyl escorts Aeneas to the entrance of the underworld, where he seeks to speak to his dead father.
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