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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.
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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 .
Germanicus (15 B.C.-A.D. 19) was a successful general and immensely popular with both the military and Roman citizenry, yet he never ascended the throne due to his death at the age of 33, five years into Tiberius' reign. Germanicus received extensive posthumous honors and was venerated as Rome's version of Alexander the Great.
Andrea del Sarto, work includes paintings for the Santissima Annunziata, Florence [525] [526] Sassetta, like much of the Sienese School, he did religious art, including the Mystic Marriage of St. Francis [527] [528] Giovanni Battista Salvi da Sassoferrato, work includes paintings of Mother Mary [529] [530]
The painting represents one of the many tortures suffered by Erasmus of Formia, Bishop of Antioch, taken by an angel to southern Italy, and pursued by the persecutions of Maximian Hercules. The torture represented here does not come from the Roman Martyrology but from the Golden Legend of Jacobus de Voragine. The emperor ordered that he be tied ...
On 11 December 1831, following direct orders from Ferdinand VII and without any sort of trial, José María Torrijos was executed on the beach of Málaga, together with other companions (such as Manuel Flores Calderón and Francisco Fernández Golfín), including both military and civilians. [2] The painting depicts the scene.