Entellus and Dares

A photograph of an antique bas-relief depicting the combat between the Sicilian Entellus and the Trojan Dares. The story derives from Book V of Virgil’s Aeneid. Ruland (1876) does not provide any information about the bas-relief, but this is probably the second-century Roman marble relief of two boxers, now in the Museo Gregoriano Profano in the Vatican (inv. no. 9502, 9503). Annotated on the verso.

This relief was reproduced in an engraving by Marco da Ravenna, who was probably also looking at compositions by Giulio Romano: see also RCIN 854623.