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Two drawings taking up the theme of the painting are attributed to Poussin. One is kept in the British Museum. [5] Although very damaged, it already presents the main lines of the painting with a few variations: the soldier in the center does not extend his hand to the sky but holds the hand of Germanicus, thus remaining closer to the text of ...
Death of Germanicus (1773–1774), a marble sculpture by British sculptor Thomas Banks. [97] Thusnelda im Triumphzug des Germanicus (1873), a painting by German painter Karl von Piloty. [56] I, Claudius (1934), a historical fiction novel by classicist Robert Graves. [98] The Caesars (1968), a British television series by Philip Mackie.
The bust depicts the young Germanicus before the depositio barbae, the Roman ritual first shaving of the beard. While the image, or portrait type, was created at the time of his adoption by Tiberius in A.D. 4, this bust is a posthumous portrait of the popular general, who was being groomed to be emperor but died young.
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Francesco Maria del Monte, full name Francesco Maria Bourbon del Monte Santa Maria, (5 July 1549 – 27 August 1627) was an Italian cardinal, diplomat, and connoisseur of the arts. [1] His fame today rests on his early patronage of the important Baroque master Caravaggio , and on his art collection (the del Monte collection) which provides ...
The Wife of Arminius Brought Captive to Germanicus is a 1773 history painting by the Anglo-American artist Benjamin West. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] It depicts a scene from the Roman Empire 's military campaign in Germania in the early first century , loosely based on the writings of the historian Tacitus .
Agrippina Landing in Brundisium with the Ashes of Germanicus is a 64 1 ⁄ 2 x 94 1 ⁄ 2 oil-on-canvas painting. [8] West's painting depicts the events from the beginning of Tacitus' third book as read to him by his client, the Archbishop of York, Dr. Robert Drummond.
Atop the arch were twelve statues, and pride of place over the arch’s centre was a statue of Germanicus in a triumphal chariot. Alongside his statue were other statues of his family; his father Nero Claudius Drusus , his mother Antonia Minor , his wife Agrippina the Elder , his sons and daughters (including Caligula ), as well as his brother ...