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Showing Cato the Younger, it was commissioned by Marcantonio Eugenio, a lawyer from Perugia active in Rome. [1] A note in the painter's payment book refers to a sum equivalent to 15 scudi paid to him for the work on 22 November 1640, with the balance settled on 7 December 1641 with 45 scudi. [2]
Cato of Utica Bidding Farewell to his Son is a 1635 oil on canvas painting, housed at the Musée des Beaux-Arts de Marseille since 1872. [1] [2]It shows the aftermath of Cato the Younger's defeat by Julius Caesar at the Battle of Thapsus as told in Plutarch's Parallel Lives, with Cato breaking off from reading Plato's Dialogue on the Immortality of the Soul to say goodbye to his son just ...
Statue of Cato the Younger in the Louvre Museum. He is about to kill himself while reading the Phaedo, a dialogue of Plato which describes the death of Socrates. The statue was begun by Jean-Baptiste Roman (Paris, 1792–1835) using white Carrara marble. It was finished by François Rude (Dijon, 1784 – Paris, 1855).
The Death of Cato the Younger, the 1797 painting which won Bouchet the Prix de Rome. Now at the École nationale supérieure des Beaux-Arts in Paris. Louis-André-Gabriel Bouchet (1759 – 7 July 1842) was a French historical painter and a pupil of Jacques-Louis David. He painted subjects from sacred and profane history, poetry, and portraits.
The 16th-century French writer and philosopher Michel de Montaigne was fascinated by the example of Cato, the incident being mentioned in multiple of his Essais, above all in Du Jeune Caton in Book I. [6] Whether the example of Cato was a potential ethical model or a simply unattainable standard troubled him in particular, Cato proving to be Montaigne's favoured role-model in the earlier ...
Jean-Baptiste Roman's Cato of Utica Reading the Phaedo before Committing Himself to Death (1832) Jean-Baptiste Roman (31 October 1792 – 13 February 1835) was a French sculptor. He was born and died in Paris. Among his works is a sculpture on the death of Cato the Younger, a theme that became popular along with revolutionary sentiment. [1]
Marcia is an oil-on-wood painting executed c. 1519 by the Italian Renaissance painter Domenico Beccafumi. It depicts Marcia, wife of Cato the Younger. [1] The painting's dimensions are 92.1 by 53.3 cm. Marcia and Tanaquil, both in the National Gallery, in London, originally formed part of a series of paintings of noted women from Roman antiquity.
Porcia (c. 73 BC – June 43 BC), [2] [3] occasionally spelled Portia, especially in 18th-century English literature, [4] was a Roman woman who lived in the 1st century BC. She was the daughter of Marcus Porcius Cato Uticensis (Cato the Younger) and his first wife Atilia.