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 a 1640 oil on canvas painting by Nicolas Poussin, commissioned by Abbé Gian Maria Roscioli, secretary to Pope Urban VIII. It...
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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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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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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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Louvre (redirect from McDonald's (The Louvre))
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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Polyxena (redirect from The Sacrifice of Polyxena)
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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Peter Paul Rubens (category Diplomats of the Spanish Netherlands)
destroyed in the fire at Royal Alcázar of Madrid fire in 1734. A copy is in the Uffizi Gallery. The Continence of Scipio was destroyed in a fire in the Western...
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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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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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Gaius Laelius (category Wikipedia articles incorporating a citation from the 1911 Encyclopaedia Britannica with Wikisource reference)
not portray much of Gaius Laelius. George Handel's opera Scipione, about the romantic episode 'the Continence of Scipio', is one of the few cases. It has...
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Scipio Africanus is a 1718 historical tragedy by the British writer Charles Beckingham. It is inspired by the story of The Continence of Scipio, featuring...
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1632–1633, which is now in the National Gallery in London. The principal group consists of two nymphs and two fauns (emblem of the four seasons), dancing...
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Gerbrand van den Eeckhout (category Wikipedia articles incorporating a citation from the 1911 Encyclopaedia Britannica with Wikisource reference)
prestigious part of the canal. He died in Amsterdam. The Continence of Scipio, Rijksmuseum Amsterdam Isaac Blessing Jacob, in the Metropolitan Museum of Art Resurrection...
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The legendary rape of the Sabine women is the subject of two oil paintings by Nicolas Poussin. The first version was painted in Rome about 1634 or 1635...
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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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Lost artworks (redirect from Lost works of art)
neglected through ignorance and lack of connoisseurship. Missing works with the highest estimated market values Portrait of a Young Man by Raphael Nativity...
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Plaquette (section France and the Netherlands)
giving the main point of distinction with the artistic medal, where both sides are normally decorated. They can usually be held within a hand. At the smaller...
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Midas and Bacchus (Poussin) (category Paintings of Bacchus)
dated to about 1624–1629, which is now in the Alte Pinakothek, Munich. This subject exhibits the avaricious King of Phrygia, attired in a blue vesture and...
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Isaac Blessing Jacob (Gerbrand van den Eeckhout) (category Paintings in the Metropolitan Museum of Art)
Successor, 1646 The Continence of Scipio, ca. 1650-55 Joseph and His Brothers, 1657 The Continence of Scipio, 1658 "Isaac Blessing Jacob". The Met. Metropolitan...
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Vincenzo Camuccini (category Wikipedia articles incorporating a citation from the 1911 Encyclopaedia Britannica with Wikisource reference)
Departure of Regulus for Carthage. Death of Virginia. Continence of Scipio. Death of Caesar. He also painted:[citation needed] Incredulity of St. Thomas...
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Gentile Bellini (category Wikipedia articles incorporating a citation from the 1911 Encyclopaedia Britannica with Wikisource reference)
was an Italian painter of the school of Venice. He came from Venice's leading family of painters, and at least in the early part of his career was more highly...
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the staircase are two large paintings by Andrea Casali depicting the Continence of Scipio and Sophonisba Taking Poison. These paintings were commissioned...
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the Louvre, Paris. The work is regarded as one of Poussin's most ambitious. Scene: a rocky desert, with high cliffs and trees on each side, and the tents...
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"Anthony van Dyck - The Continence of Scipio", PubHist, 20047, retrieved 13 April 2017 "George Villiers (1592-1628), 1st Duke of Buckingham", National...
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The Continence of Scipio. The Celsi family produced the 16th-century Sienese ambassador Mino Celsi who fled to Switzerland due to accusations of heresy...
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on the right. The scene is set in the early morning, with Aurora, goddess of dawn, preceding the chariot of Apollo the sun-god in the sky behind; the Hours...
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events...in order to present a series of contrasts – between Hannibal and Scipio, Syphax and Masinissa, continence and lust, public duty and private passion...
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