Thomas Crow's Emulation discusses why the weeping woman on the far-right of this artwork is modeled on a description of Timanthes' painting of Iphigenia. Eight Doric columns partially covered by a white cloth form a right angle in this painting's center background. On this painting's far right is a nurse, who covers her face with a blue shawl. Many critics divide the dark, masculine left-hand side of this painting from the light, feminine, right-hand side. The inscription "DEA ROMA" appears below the statue of a goddess at the left of this painting's title figure, who sits on a klismos and holds a decree ordering an execution for attempting to restore the Tarquinian monarchy. Exhibited the week after the storming of the Bastille, this is, for 10 points, what Jacque
Thomas Crow's Emulation discusses why the weeping woman on the far-right of this artwork is modeled on a description of Timanthes' painting of Iphigenia. Eight Doric columns partially covered by a white cloth form a right angle in this painting's center background. On this painting's far right is a nurse, who covers her face with a blue shawl. Many critics divide the dark, masculine left-hand side of this painting from the light, feminine, right-hand side. The inscription "DEA ROMA" appears below the statue of a goddess at the left of this painting's title figure, who sits on a klismos and holds a decree ordering an execution for attempting to restore the Tarquinian monarchy. Exhibited the week after the storming of the Bastille, this is, for 10 points, what Jacques-Louis David painting that depicts stretchers bearing the children of a Roman leader?