Landscape with the Burial of St Serapia

Landscape with the Burial of St. Serapia is a 1639–40 oil painting by the French artist Claude Lorrain.

At the time the painting was produced, it was thought to be located on the Aventine Hill, hence the Basilica of Santa Sabina.

[citation needed] In the painting, the inscription on the lid of the sarcophagus reads SEPVLTVRA.S.SABIN (a)... SEPELIR(e) IVBET.C.SANCTAE SERAPI(ae).

In 1637, various artists in Rome, including Claude Lorrain, were commissioned by the Marquis of Castelo Rodrigo, the ambassador to the Holy See, to create a series of paintings to doctorate the Buen Retiro Palace.

Poussin painted a pair of mythological scenes, Meleager's Hunt and The Feast of Priapus.