Aeneas and his family fleeing Troy 1595 Agostino Carracci Italian Understanding that defending the burning city of Troy was futile, Aeneas fled with his aged father Anchises on his back. Anchises carried the penates (household gods), and Aeneas held his son Ascanius by the hand. His wife Creusa followed a few steps behind but was lost in the confusion of battle. The buildings of Troy seen here recall monuments in Rome, which was possibly an intentional detail to foreshadow Aeneas' fate.Federico Barocci produced two paintings of this subject. The earlier one was already in Prague when Agostino created this engraving, while the second version postdates it by three years. Another printmaker Cornelis Cort reproduced one of the paintings in a print. Agostino's biographer Malvasia tells us that Agostino created this engraving 'for study, and to please himself.' Agostino did not however please Barocci, to whom he sent two impressions of the engraving and received a rather nasty letter in retu