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Painting by Mattia Preti

Aeneas Fleeing Troy or The Flight From Troy is an oil-on-canvas painting executed c. 1640–1645 by the Italian Baroque artist Mattia Preti, now in the Galleria nazionale di arte antica in Palazzo Barberini in Rome. It shows Aeneas carrying his father Anchises and being led by his young son Ascanius as told in Book 2 of the Aeneid. It first appears in the written record in an 1824 inventory of Giovanni Torlonia's collections, which misattributed it to Simon Vouet, with later inventories misattributing it to Alessandro Turchi and the correct attribution only restored in 1916 by Roberto Longhi.

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Paintings	Saint Anthony Abbot (c. 1628) Aeneas Fleeing Troy (c. 1640–1645) Vanitas (1650–1670) Christ and the Woman Taken in Adultery (c. 1650) Christ and the Canaanite Woman (c. 1650) Saint Nicholas (c. 1653) Judith and Holofernes (c. 1653–1656) Saint John the Baptist (c. 1653–1656) The Return of the Prodigal Son (1656) Madonna of Constantinople (c. 1656) The Four Evangelists (c. 1656–1660) Saint Sebastian (c. 1657) Saint George on Horseback (1658) The Return of the Prodigal Son (1658) The Banquet of Absalom (c. 1660–1665) Belshazzar's Feast (c. 1660–1665) The Banquet of the Rich Glutton (c. 1665) The Death of Sophonisba (c. 1670) Saint John the Baptist Wearing the Red Tabard of the Order of Saint John (1671) Plato and Diogenes (c. 1688)
Related	Battistello Caracciolo (possible first master) Caravaggisti

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