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Cornelia, mother of the Gracchi, by Joseph-Benoît Suvée (1795, Louvre) The manuscripts of Cornelius Nepos, the earliest Latin biographer (ca. 110-24 BC), include several excerpts from a letter supposedly composed by Cornelia to Gaius (her younger son). If the letters are authentic, they would make Cornelia one of only four Roman women whose ...
Pliny the Younger and His Mother at Misenum: 1785: oil on canvas: Princeton University Art Museum, USA: Catalogue entry: Portrait: Young Woman, Possibly Anna Charlotta Dorothea von Medem, Duchess of Courland (1761–1821) 1785: oil on canvas: Private Sold at Sotheby's 2009: Sotheby's entry: History: Cornelia, Mother of the Gracchi Pointing to ...
Maria Anna Angelika Kauffmann RA (/ ˈ k aʊ f m ə n / KOWF-mən; 30 October 1741 – 5 November 1807), usually known in English as Angelica Kauffman, [a] was a Swiss Neoclassical painter who had a successful career in London and Rome.
Cornelia, Mother of the Gracchi, Pointing to her Children as Her Treasures, by Angelica Kauffmann (1785, Virginia Museum of Fine Arts) Sempronia (170 BC – after 101 BC) was a Roman noblewoman living in the Middle and Late Roman Republic, who was most famous as the sister of the ill-fated Tiberius Gracchus (died 133 BC) and Gaius Gracchus ...
Cornelia, mother of the Gracchi, by Noël Hallé (1779, Musée Fabre). Haec ornamenta mea is a Latin phrase meaning "These are my jewels" or "These are my ornaments". The expression is attributed to Cornelia Africana (c. 190 – c. 100 BC) by Valerius Maximus in his Factorum ac dictorum memorabilium libri IX, IV, 4, incipit, [1] [2] [3] where he related an anecdote demonstrating Cornelia's ...
An excited Pugh replies: “That's where the Pugh came in!” Porowski confirms, “That's where the Pugh came in. And they got married, and this is their daughter's act of birth.”
Reactions to Mother Angelica's death: The nun, born Rita Rizzo in Canton, Ohio, founded the network, among the world's largest religious broadcasters, from a studio set up in an Alabama monastery ...
Cornelia, mother of the Gracchi, presenting her children and saying: "Here are my treasures" title QS:P1476,fr:"Cornélie, mère des Gracques, montre ses enfants, en disant: "Voici mes richesses et mes bijoux" "