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    The Continence of Scipio, or The Clemency of Scipio, is an episode in the life of the Roman general Scipio Africanus, recounted by the historian Livy....
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    depicted by painters of the Renaissance and early modern era as the Continence of Scipio. According to Valerius Maximus, Scipio had a relationship from...
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  • The Continence of Scipio is the name of the following paintings: The Continence of Scipio (Bellini), a 1507–1508 oil-on-canvas painting by Giovanni Bellini...
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    The Continence of Scipio is an oil on canvas painting by the Italian artist Giambattista Pittoni, from c. 1732–1735. This painting is the counterpart...
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    The Continence of Scipio is an oil on canvas painting by Nicolas Poussin, from 1640. It is held in the Pushkin Museum, in Moscow. It was commissioned by...
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    The Continence of Scipio or An Episode from the Life of Publius Cornelius Scipio is a painting in oils on canvas by the Italian Renaissance artist Giovanni...
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    libretto was by Nicolò Minato, based on Livy's "The Continence of Scipio". It was first performed in Venice at the Teatro SS. Giovanni e Paolo on 9 February...
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    The Continence of Scipio (Dutch: De grootmoedigheid van Scipio) is a c. 1653 painting by Dutch artist Gerbrand van den Eeckhout. It shows the continence...
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    painted it in the Chateau of Fontainebleau (1541–47). But the subject became more popular in the Baroque, often paired with the Continence of Scipio. Pietro...
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    John the Baptist, and Madonna of the Rocks. The Baroque collection includes Giambattista Pittoni's The Continence of Scipio, Susanna and the Elders...
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    UniFrance. Archived from the original on 16 August 2023. Retrieved 16 August 2023. "Anthony van Dyck – The Continence of Scipio", PubHist, 20047, retrieved...
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    Dying Gaul (redirect from The Dying Gaul)
    people of parts of Anatolia. The original sculptor is believed to have been Epigonus, a court sculptor of the Attalid dynasty of Pergamon. Until the 20th...
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    and one of her sisters) is a painting by an unknown artist dated c. 1594. It is in the Louvre in Paris and is usually thought to be the work of a painter...
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    Louvre Pyramid (category Pages using the Kartographer extension)
    is in the main courtyard (Cour Napoléon) of the Louvre Palace in Paris, surrounded by three smaller pyramids. The large pyramid serves as the main entrance...
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    in the Louvre in Paris. The painting immediately became a huge success with critics and the public and remains one of the best-known paintings in the Neoclassical...
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    Liberty Leading the People (French: La Liberté guidant le peuple [la libɛʁte ɡidɑ̃ lə pœpl]) is a painting of the Romantic era by the French artist Eugène...
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    from the ancient Near East. It is written in the Old Babylonian dialect of Akkadian, purportedly by Hammurabi, sixth king of the First Dynasty of Babylon...
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    Timoclea (redirect from Timocleia of Thebes)
    composition similar to ones of the much more common The Continence of Scipio; the subject likewise emphasized the magnanimity of the commander. Timoclea sometimes...
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    an oil painting of 1814 by Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres depicting an odalisque, or concubine. Ingres' contemporaries considered the work to signify Ingres'...
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    The Winged Victory of Samothrace, or the Niké of Samothrace, is a votive monument originally discovered on the island of Samothrace, north of the Aegean...
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    The Coronation of Napoleon (French: Le Sacre de Napoléon) is a painting completed in 1807 by Jacques-Louis David, the official painter of Napoleon, depicting...
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    Mona Lisa (redirect from The Mona Lisa)
    masterpiece of the Italian Renaissance, it has been described as "the best known, the most visited, the most written about, the most sung about, [and] the most...
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    The Lament for Ur, or Lamentation over the city of Ur is a Sumerian lament composed around the time of the fall of Ur to the Elamites and the end of the...
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    The Wedding at Cana (Italian: Nozze di Cana, 1562–1563), by Paolo Veronese, is a representational painting that depicts the biblical story of the Wedding...
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    Pilgrimage to the Isle of Cythera. Watteau submitted this work to the Royal Academy of Painting and Sculpture as his reception piece in 1717. The painting...
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    The Venus de Milo or Aphrodite of Melos is an ancient Greek marble sculpture that was created during the Hellenistic period. Its exact dating is uncertain...
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    The Raft of the Medusa (French: Le Radeau de la Méduse [lə ʁado d(ə) la medyz]) – originally titled Scène de Naufrage (Shipwreck Scene) – is an oil painting...
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    but modified in 1862. The painting depicts a group of nude women at a pool in a harem. It has an erotic style that evokes both the Near East and earlier...
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    Benjamin West (category Fellows of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences)
    Pylades and The Continence of Scipio. West was known in England as the "American Raphael". His Raphaelesque painting of Archangel Michael Binding the Devil...
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    The Virgin of the Rocks (Italian: Vergine delle rocce), sometimes the Madonna of the Rocks, is the name of two paintings by the Italian Renaissance artist...
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