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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 ...
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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.
In 1627, Poussin painted The Death of Germanicus (Minneapolis Institute of Arts) for Cardinal Barberini. The painting's erudite use of ancient textual and visual sources (the Histories of Tacitus and the Meleager sarcophagus), stoic restraint and pictorial clarity established Poussin's reputation as a major artist.
Poussin – The Death of Germanicus. Nicolas Poussin – The Death of Germanicus; Rembrandt – Rembrandt's Mother: Bust (etching) Francisco de Zurbarán – Saint Serapion; Cornelis van Haarlem – The Judgement of Paris (approximate date) Anthony van Dyck. Nicolas Lanier; The Shepherd Paris (approximate date)
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.
Pages in category "Paintings based on works by Tacitus" The following 8 pages are in this category, out of 8 total. ... The Death of Germanicus;
West was a British-American painter, President of the Royal Academy of Arts, and an official painter at the Court of St. James. [2] He had risen to prominence through works such as The Death of General Wolfe, The Departure of Regulus, and Agrippina Landing at Brundisium with the Ashes of Germanicus, which date from the decisive early years of his career between 1765 and 1772.