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In 1864 the Boston painter George Loring Brown finished a landscape he called View of the Temple of Peace in the Roman Forum. It’s now in the Smithsonian American Art Museum: ruins near the Colosseum in warm light, with the dome of St Peter’s far off in the distance. It’s a …
Jacques-Louis David completed The Oath of the Horatii in Rome in 1784 and exhibited it at the Paris Salon the following year. It stopped the room …
In the main hall of the Musée d’Orsay in Paris, beneath the vast iron-and-glass vault of the former railway station, stands a bronze that makes …
Edward Poynter’s Cave of the Storm Nymphs, his Israel in Egypt, and his Lesbia, along with the Roman paintings of his contemporaries John William …
Frederic Leighton, Lord Leighton, President of the Royal Academy from 1878 until his death in 1896, was the dominant figure in British academic …
Jacques-Louis David painted the Oath of the Horatii in 1784, five years before the French Revolution, and the painting arrived in Paris as a political …
Lawrence Alma-Tadema painted marble better than anyone who has ever lived. The cool translucence of Pentelic and Carrara stone, the way light passes …
The assassination of Julius Caesar on the Ides of March, 44 BC, has been painted repeatedly across five centuries of European art, and the accumulated …
The Roman triumph — the procession through the city in which a victorious general displayed his captives and the spoils of conquest before depositing …
