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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 a mass abduction of young women from the other cities in the region.
It depicts three nude figures: a young man in the centre who has seemingly taken a woman from a despairing older man below him. It is ostensibly based on the rape of the Sabine Women incident from the early history of Rome when the city contained relatively few women, leading to their men committing a raptio [a] of young women from nearby Sabina.
The legendary rape of the Sabine women is the subject of two oil paintings by Nicolas Poussin. [a] The first version was painted in Rome about 1634 or 1635 and is now in the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City, catalogued as The Abduction of the Sabine Women. [1]
The Intervention of the Sabine Women is a 1799 painting by the French painter Jacques-Louis David, showing a legendary episode following the abduction of the Sabine women by the founding generation of Rome. Work on the painting commenced in 1796, after his estranged wife visited him in jail.
The Rape of the Sabine Women became a common motif in art; the women ending the war is a less frequent but still reappearing motif. According to Livy, after the conflict, the Sabine and Roman states merged, and the Sabine king Titus Tatius jointly ruled Rome with Romulus until Tatius' death five years later.
Reverse of a denarius (89 BCE) depicting the torture of Tarpeia Reverse of a denarius (19-18 BCE) of Augustus showing Tarpeia crushed by the soldiers' shields. In Roman legend, Tarpeia (/ t ɑːr ˈ p iː ə /; mid-8th century BCE), daughter of the Roman commander Spurius Tarpeius, was a Vestal Virgin who betrayed the city of Rome to the Sabines at the time of their women's abduction for what ...
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
The Rape of the Sabine Women (German: Der Raub der Sabinerinnen), 7 ft 2 in x 8 ft. The Sabine women seized and borne away by the Romans. In the background, near a Corinthian temple, Romulus, mounted upon a horse, is directing the movement. Painted for Marie Louise d'Orléans, Queen of Spain; taken from Naples to Dresden.