The Conquest of Tunis and the Mini-Aeneid of Charles V

Title
The Conquest of Tunis and the Mini-Aeneid of Charles V
Publication Date
2019
Author(s)
Taylor, Tristan
( author )
OrcID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8558-3644
Email: ttaylo33@une.edu.au
UNE Id une-id:ttaylo33
Type of document
Conference Publication
Language
en
Entity Type
Publication
Publisher
University of New England
Place of publication
Armidale, Australia
UNE publication id
une:1959.11/31296
Abstract
Charles V made extensive use of Augustan and Virgilian imagery to portray his reign as an extension of that of Augustus, including tracing his heritage, via the Roman emperors, to Aeneas (eg, Catálogo real de Castilla; Tanner 1993). This paper will examine the importance of the 12 panel 16th century tapestry series, the Conquest of Tunis (de Vega and Carretero 1986), for the continuation of this theme. These tapestries, regularly hung at court festivals even after Charles V's reign, link together Roman imperial glory and Trojan ancestry through allusions to the Aeneid in their portrayal of Charles V's 1535 conquest of Tunis.
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Citation
Australasian Society for Classical Studies Annual Conference, p. 67-67
Start page
67
End page
67

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