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.
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?
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.
The Lictors Bring to Brutus the Bodies of His Sons [or Brutus and His Sons; or The Lictors Returning to Brutus the Bodies of His Sons or similar translations involving Lictors + Brutus and his sons; or Les licteurs rapportent á Brutus les corps de ses fils]