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[The Trojan Horse] – Antique Wall Art

[The Trojan Horse] — historic print
[The Trojan Horse]. Historic print from the Horses collection.

(Originally scanned by the Library of Congress. Each image is professionally and digitally cleaned of artifacts such as color bars and extra borders prior to printing.)

Description

Few images capture their era like this historic print of [The Trojan Horse]. The original is held by the Library of Congress, so what you hang is a true record of its time.

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Here the horse is not a living animal but the hollow wooden figure the Greeks left outside Troy to trick its defenders, which sets this print apart from the other horse subjects on the board. The story comes mainly from Virgil's *Aeneid*, where the Greeks feign retreat, the Trojans drag the gift inside their walls, and armed men later emerge from its belly at night. Dated 1488, the woodcut comes from the early decades of printing, when illustrated books were turning classical legends into pictures for readers who could not easily see the ancient texts themselves.

Medium1 print : woodcut.
Notes1488
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan1,536 × 1,071 px · prints to 5 × 4 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-121878

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