Federico Barrocci’s 1598 painting Aeneas’ Flight from Troy Troy IX (ca. 85 B.C.-500 A.D.) In 85 B.C., the Roman general Gaius Flavius Fimbra sacked Troy, destroying much of the city.

The artwork, Aeneas and His Family Fleeing Burning Troy (1654) by Henry Gibbs ... Hartveld, a respected collector, was forced to flee Belgium in 1940 with his wife following the Nazi's invasion ...

Samuel Hartveld and his wife were among those escaping Nazi persecution, leaving behind a number of belongings including the oil-on-canvas work "Aeneas and his Family Fleeing Burning Troy.

It tells the story of Aeneas, a Trojan leader on the run with his son, carrying his aging father on his back, escaping with other refugees the burning city of Troy, which had been laid siege by ...

Aeneas and his Family Fleeing Burning Troy was stolen from the home of Samuel Hartveld after he fled Antwerp, Belgium, with his wife in May 1940. The artwork by English painter Henry Gibbs was one of ...