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The rape of the Sabine women (Latin: Sabinae raptae, Classical pronunciation: [saˈbiːnae̯ ˈraptae̯]; lit. ' the kidnapped Sabine women '), also known as the abduction of the Sabine women or the kidnapping of the Sabine women, was an incident in the legendary history of Rome in which the men of Rome committed bride kidnappings or mass abduction for the purpose of marriage, of women from ...
The Abduction of a Sabine Woman was made from a single block of white marble, which became the largest block ever transported to Florence. Giambologna wanted to create a composition with the figura serpentina (S-curve) and an upward snakelike spiral movement. It was conceived without a dominant viewpoint; that is, the work gives a different ...
Charles John Huffam Dickens (/ ˈ d ɪ k ɪ n z / ⓘ; 7 February 1812 – 9 June 1870) was an English novelist, journalist, short story writer and social critic.He created some of literature's best-known fictional characters, and is regarded by many as the greatest novelist of the Victorian era. [1]
Madame Thérèse Defarge is a fictional character and the main antagonist of the 1859 novel A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens. She is a ringleader of the tricoteuses, a tireless worker for the French Revolution, memorably knitting beside the guillotine during executions. She is the wife of Ernest Defarge.
One of the most controversial characters created by Dickens is the British Jew Fagin in the novel Oliver Twist, first published in serial form between 1837 and 1839.The character of Fagin has been seen by many as being stereotypical and containing antisemitic tropes, though others, such as Dickens's biographer G. K. Chesterton have argued against this view.
Eliza Davis (1817–1903) was a Jewish English woman who is remembered for her correspondence with the novelist Charles Dickens about his depiction of Jewish characters in his novels. Davis was born in Jamaica. In 1835 she married her cousin [1] James Phineas Davis (1812–1886), a banker, who, in 1860, bought Tavistock House in London from ...
Abduction of a Sabine Woman or The Rape of the Sabine, a sculpture by Giambologna; Rape of the Sabines (Pietro da Cortona), two paintings by Pietro da Cortona; The Rape of the Sabine Women, two paintings by Nicolas Poussin; The Rape of the Sabine Women, a painting by Peter Paul Rubens
The Abduction of the Sabine Women may refer to: The Abduction of the Sabine Women, a German theatre play; The Abduction of the Sabine Women, a German silent comedy film; The Abduction of the Sabine Women, a German comedy film; The Abduction of the Sabine Women, a West German musical comedy film