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Triumph of Cicero The central hall of villa medicea di Poggio a Caiano. Triumph of Cicero (Il Trionfo di Cicerone) is a fresco measuring approximately 500x540 cm by Franciabigio and Alessandro Allori in the central hall of the villa medicea di Poggio a Caiano, Province of Prato, Italy. It dates to circa 1520 (first phase), and 1582 (second phase).
Marcus Tullius Cicero [a] (/ ˈ s ɪ s ə r oʊ / SISS-ə-roh; Latin: [ˈmaːrkʊs ˈtʊlli.ʊs ˈkɪkɛroː]; 3 January 106 BC – 7 December 43 BC) was a Roman statesman, lawyer, scholar, philosopher, orator, writer and Academic skeptic, [4] who tried to uphold optimate principles during the political crises that led to the establishment of the Roman Empire. [5]
The Death of Brutus (French: La Mort de Brutus) is a 1793 neoclassical history painting by the French artist Pierre-Narcisse Guérin.It depicts the corpse Marcus Junius Brutus, of the leaders of the assassination of Julius Caesar, being carried aloft following his suicide after the defeat at the Battle of Philippi.
John Trumbull, The Painter of the Revolution, self-portrait, c. 1802. Trumbull went to London in 1784 to study painting with Benjamin West, historical painter to King George III. [4] West, himself famous for such paintings as The Death of General Wolfe, suggested that Trumbull paint great events of the American Revolution.
Littlefield was born in 1825 and his family were from Cicero, Illinois and they were friends with the future US president Abraham Lincoln. [1] [2] In 1887 Littlefield told the Brooklyn Eagle that he was a student in Abraham Lincoln's office for two years. [3] Abraham Lincoln portrait by John H. Littlefield (1865)
Cicero was 43 years old at the time but looks much older, and Catiline, who was two years older than Cicero, looks much younger than Cicero. [5] The painting has been reproduced in many textbooks and histories of Rome, and its depiction of the Roman Senate has even influenced the presentation of the Senate of the Roman Republic in nonfiction books.
The ancient Roman busts of Julius Caesar and Cleopatra in the Altes Museum, Berlin. Caesar is referred to in some of the poems of Catullus (ca. 84 – 54 BC); The Commentarii de Bello Gallico (ca. 58 – 49 BC) and the Commentarii de Bello Civili (ca. 40 BC) are two autobiographical works Caesar used to justify his actions and cement popular support
The Death of Caesar (French: La Mort de César) is an 1867 painting by the French artist Jean-Léon Gérôme.It depicts the moment after the assassination of Julius Caesar, when the jubilant conspirators are walking away from Caesar's dead body at the Theatre of Pompey, on the Ides of March (March 15), 44 BC.