How does Aeneas, Anchises, and Ascanius elucidate its Patronage?
This was the Bernini's first commission from Cardinal Scipione Borghese. It probably started around 1618 and finished the succeeding year.  It was one of a number of sculptures that would end up in the Villa Borghese, now the Galleria Borghese.
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