#viriatus

[daniel-gamelas]

Recently Anthony Baus came to my studio @portoatelier for a figure and perspective workshop. This is my take on that week. The model was the most muscular human I ever drew... ... I imagine guys like this back in the iron age resisting the occupation of the Roman empire... It's been a loooong time since those events in the Peninsula but I really hope they gave those invaders a hard time... 🤘

[birdsofrhiannon]

A bit more about...

Boudica 

Vercingetorix 

Viriatus

[birdsofrhiannon]

Statue of Viriato, at Viseu, Portugal

Viriatus (known as Viriato in Portuguese and Spanish) was the most important leader of the Lusitanian people that resisted Roman expansion into the regions of western Hispania (as the Romans called it) or western Iberia (as the Greeks called it), where the Roman province of Lusitania would be finally established after the conquest.

Viriatus developed alliances with other Iberian groups, even far away from his usual theatres of war, inducing them to rebel against Rome. He led his army, supported by most of the Lusitanian and Vetton tribes as well as by other Celtiberian allies, to several victories over the Romans between 147 BC and 139 BC before being betrayed by them and murdered while sleeping.

[virtuteetarmis]

Viriatus was the most important leader of the Lusitanian people that resisted Roman expansion into the regions of western Hispania (as the Romans called it) or western Iberia (as the Greeks called it), where the Roman province of Lusitania would be finally established after the conquest.

In 1572, Luís Vaz de Camões epic poem Os Lusiadas, the author exalts Viriatus' great deeds.