The Family of Darius Before Alexander is an oil painting on canvas by Paolo Veronese, executed c. 1565–1570. It depicts Alexander the Great with the family...

Alexander then decided to pursue Darius. Before Alexander reached him, however, Darius was killed by his relative Bessus, who was also the satrap of Bactria...

mentions that one of the mythological subjects was The Family of Darius before Alexander, the rare subject in Veronese's grandest treatment of secular history...

They began with battles against the Achaemenid Empire, then under the rule of Darius III. After Alexander's chain of victories, he began a campaign against...

Giuseppe Angeli. The palace once housed, among other things, Paolo Veronese's monumental painting The Family of Darius before Alexander, which was viewed...

in 332 BC to Darius III, wherein he argued that he was worthier than Darius "to succeed to the Achaemenid throne". However, Alexander's eventual decision...

Darius I (Old Persian: 𐎭𐎠𐎼𐎹𐎺𐎢𐏁 Dārayavaʰuš; c. 550 – 486 BCE), commonly known as Darius the Great, was the third King of Kings of the Achaemenid...

For the room, he depicted the Invention of Gunpowder and the Family of Darius before Alexander the Great. Some of the sources dispute the identity of Coppi...

was the mother of Darius III of Persia, whose reign was ended during the wars of Alexander the Great. After she was captured by Alexander at the Battle...

the League of Corinth, and it led to the fall of the Achaemenid Empire and of Darius III. In November 333 BC, King Darius III had lost the Battle of Issus...

While Alexander was in Tarsus, he heard of Darius massing a great army in Babylon. If Darius were to reach the Gulf of Issus, he could use the support...

from Duccio to Picasso is a selection of European paintings in the National Gallery, London, from the 14th to the 20th century. They were selected by curator...

than ever before. But Alexander the Great conquers all of Greece and invades Persia, defeating Darius' army at Issus in 333 BC. Darius flees the battle and...

The Family of Darius Before Alexander El Greco: Christ Driving the Money Changers from the Temple Caravaggio: Boy Bitten by a Lizard, Salome with the...

burying the dead. Darius' family were left behind in the Persian camp; it is reported that Alexander treated them well and reassured them of Darius' safety...

Roxana, the daughter of Oxyartes, in the first bloom of youth, and in the judgment of Alexander's companions, next to Stateira the wife of Darius, the most...

Maggiore, Venice)[3] Family of Darius before Alexander & Continence of Scipio (ca 1709), North Carolina Museum of Art, Raleigh Liberation of Saint Peter (1710)...

The Feast in the House of Levi or Christ in the House of Levi is a 1573 oil painting by Italian painter Paolo Veronese and one of the largest canvases...

Solimena, The Family of Darius before Alexander; after Paolo Veronese. Jupiter destroying the Vices; after the same. Rebekah and the Servant of Abraham;...

doors. The east wall has above a small staircase leading to the ground floor, Christophe Veyrier's white marble relief of The family of Darius before Alexander...

Later, Darius kills off Ripudaman which makes Porus hate Bamni. Anusuya tells Porus her entire story and Porus takes an oath to drive Darius out of India...

not been a grander and less sordid competitor in the form of The Family of Darius before Alexander, best known from Veronese's painting in London, which...

Portrait of Julius II (1511) Titian - Bacchus and Ariadne (1520–23) Paolo Veronese - The Family of Darius before Alexander (1565–70) Tintoretto - The Origin...

(detail-of-fresco-in-Vatican-Stanze) c. 1650 The mystical marriage of Saint Rosa of Lima Joseph and the Wife of Potiphar The family of Darius before Alexander...

daughters of Darius III of Persia. When Hephaestion died suddenly at Ecbatana around age thirty-two, Alexander was overwhelmed with grief. He petitioned the oracle...

which he was to murder Alexander. The bearer of the letters from Darius was taken by Parmenion and brought before Alexander, and the treachery was considered...

wept at the news of the death, while Achaemenid subjects were forced to shave their heads. The mother of Darius III, Sisygambis, having learned of Alexander's...

killed Darius III and left his body by the road. The murder took place near Hecatompylus, in July 330 BC. Darius III's body was later found by Alexander, who...

He was the son of Darius the Great and Atossa, a daughter of Cyrus the Great. In Western history, Xerxes is best known for his invasion of Greece in...

and defeat of Darius III (331 BC). The latter half of the book describes Alexander's pursuit of Darius through northern Iran, the revolt of the pretender...