#roman men

[galleryofart]

Piazza della Bocca della Verità with the so-called Vesta Temple in Rome

Artist: Constantin Hansen (Danish, 1804-1880)

Date: 1837

Medium: Oil on canvas

Collection: Statens Museum for Kunst, Amsterdam, Netherlands

[paintingsandhistory]

Octavian and Cleopatra

Artist: Anton Raphael Mengs (German, 1728-1779)

Date: 1759-1760

Medium: Oil on canvas

Collection: National Trust Collections, London, United Kingdom

Description

Octavius Augustus Caesar, nephew and adoptive son of Julius Ceasar, then known as Octavian, but later as the Emperor Augustus, is paying Cleopatra, Queen of Egypt, a visit of condolence following the death of Mark Antony in the Battle of Actium (31 BC). He stands at the left and bids the kneeling Cleopatra, dressed in a green robe, to rise. Behind her is a couch beside which two servant girls are standing. In the background, on the right, two Romans stand beside a Doric portico. The subject is taken from Plutarch's Life of Mark Antony (75 AD).

[dunceparty]

AYSHE/TRAM -- “Roman Men”