A pintura seiscentista Eneias transportando Anquises na fuga de Tróia da BNP por Diogo Pereira

Abstract

The painting The Trojan Fire, with Aeneas saving his father Anchises and fleeing the battle, performed by the seventeenth-century painter Diogo Pereira, it is one of the most interesting artistic pieces of art collection of the National Library of Portugal. It is due to a Portuguese painter who worked from 1630 to 1658, date of death, and specializes in disaster scenes, fires and tragedies, including many counterparts representations with scorched Trojan theme. This theme was very popular in the circles of the Portuguese Restoration because it symbolized the heroism and selflessness of King John IV, monarch restorer of national independence and considered something of a new Aeneas.