Roman mythology and history paintings

Early legends

Aeneid

Main gallery: Aeneid.

Main gallery: Category:Aeneid.

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  Aeneas, Anchises, and Ascanius by Bernini
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  Feast of Dido
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  Aeneas and the Sibyl of Cumae, J. M. W. Turner
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  Arrival of Aeneas and Ascanius in Latium, 2nd century relief
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  Death of Camilla
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  Battle between Aeneas and Turnus

First kings

Rhea Silvia

Main gallery: Category:Rhea Silvia.

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  Jacques Blanchard, ca. 1630
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  Rubens

Romulus and Remus

Main gallery: Category:Romulus and Remus.

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  Sebastiano Ricci - Childhood of Romulus and Remus

King Romulus (753 — 716 BC)

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  Romulus' Victory Over Acron by Ingres

Rape of the Sabine Women

Main gallery: Category:Rape of the Sabine Women.

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  Sebastiano Ricci

Tarpeia (c. 700s BC)

Main gallery: Category:Tarpeia.

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Tullus Hostilius (673 — 642 BC)

Horatii et Curiatii (7th century BC)

Main gallery: category:Horatii and Curiatii.

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Murder of Horatius' sister

Main gallery: category:Murder of Horatius' sister.

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End of Kingdom

Lucius Junius Brutus (d. 509 BC)

Main gallery: Category:Lucius Junius Brutus.

Brutus Sentences his Sons to Death

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  Heinrich Friedrich Fuger
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  Lethiere

Death

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  Tiepolo

Republic

Mucius Scaevola (509 BC)

Main gallery: Category:Mucius Scaevola in paintings.

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  Tiepolo
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Coriolanus

Main gallery: Category:Coriolanus.

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  Tiepolo

Cincinnatus (519 BC – 438 BC)

Main gallery: Category:Cincinnatus.

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  Tiepolo
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  Alexandre Cabanel - Cincinnatus Receiving Deputies of the Senate
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  Léon Bénouville
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  Juan Antonio Ribera

Marcus Furius Camillus

Main gallery: Category:Marcus Furius Camillus.

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Sack of Rome (390 BC)

Main gallery: Category:Sack of Rome (4th century BC).

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Brennus

Main gallery: Category:Brennus (4th century BC).

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  Paul Jamin, Brennus and His Share of the Spoils, 1893
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Lucius Papirius Cursor (c.365–after 310 BC)

Main gallery: Category:Lucius Papirius Cursor.

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Publius Decius Mus (consul 340 BC)

Main gallery: Category:Decius Mus.

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  Vilhelm Lundstrøm, Copy after Rubens
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  Simon de Vos
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  Jacob Matthias Schmutzer

Curius Dentatus

Main gallery: Category:Curius Dentatus.

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  Tiepolo

Quintus Fabius Maximus

Main gallery: Category:Quintus Fabius Maximus.

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  Tiepolo
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  Jan Lievens

Continence of Scipio (209 BC)

Main gallery: Category:Continence of Scipio .

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  Bellini
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  Abbate
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  Simon de Vos
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Hannibal

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  Tiepolo

Capture of Carthage

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  Tiepolo

Late Republic

Marius

Main gallery: Category:Gaius Marius.

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  Tiepolo

Battle of Vercellae

Main gallery: Category:Battle of Vercellae.

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  Tiepolo
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  Francesco Saverio Altamura

Cicero

Main gallery: Category:Paintings of Cicero.

Cicero discovering the Tomb of Archimedes

Main gallery: Category:Cicero discovering the Tomb of Archimedes.

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  Cicero Discovering the Tomb of Archimedes by Pierre-Henri de Valenciennes
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  Paolo Barbotti. Cicero discovering tomb of Archimedes

1. Caesar

Death of Julius Caesar (March 15, 44 BC)

Main gallery: Category:Paintings of the death of Julius Caesar.

Marcus Junius Brutus (85-42 BC)

Main gallery: Category:Paintings of Marcus Junius Brutus.

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  Oath of Brutus
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  The Farewell of Brutus and Porcia
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  The death of Brutus

Porcia (c. 70 - 43 BC)

Main gallery: Category:Paintings of Porcia.

Porcia and her leg

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Porcia's suicide

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Emperors

2. August

Virgil

Tu Marcellus eris

Main gallery: Category:Tu Marcellus eris.

Virgil reading the ‚Aeneid‘ to Augustus and Octavia

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  Wicar
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  Ingres
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  Kauffmann

Gaius Maecenas

Main gallery: Category:Gaius Maecenas in paintings.

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Horatius

Main gallery: Category:Horatius in paintings.

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5. Claudius

Arria and Caecina Paetus (d. 42 AC)

Main gallery: Category:Suicide of Arria and Poetus.

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Thrasea Paetus (died 66 AD)

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  Quaestor Reading the Death Sentence to Senator Thrasea Paetus, by Fyodor Bronnikov

Late Empire

Battle of Milvian Bridge

Main gallery: Category:Battle of Milvian Bridge.

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  Battle between Constantine and Maxentius by Piero della Francesca
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  Battle at Pons Milvius (school of Raphael)
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