Rape of the Sabines (Italian: Ratto delle Sabine) may refer to either of two oil paintings by the Italian Baroque artist Pietro da Cortona, created c. 1629-1630. One is in the Capitol Museum, Rome. [1] The other is listed in 19th century catalogues of the art collection at Blenheim Palace, Oxfordshire. [2] Both pictures depict the legendary rape of the Sabine women. [lower-alpha 1]
At right, a woman in a soldier's embrace, raises her hands in supplication; at left, another, borne away by a Roman, looks pityingly at her infant, who cries and seeks to follow her; in middle, a third energetically resists her aggressor. [2]
Copy by J. C. Naigeon, Dijon Museum. Engraved by P. Aquila. [2]
Waagen expresses his opinion that this picture is one of the painter's best and most careful works, exhibiting unusual force of colouring and careful execution. [4] Figures the size of life. Painted on canvas. [5]
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Sir George Scharf KCB was a British art critic, illustrator, and director of the National Portrait Gallery.
The Rape of the Sabine Women, also known as the Abduction of the Sabine Women or the Kidnapping of the Sabine Women, was an incident in the legendary history of Rome in which the men of Rome committed a mass abduction of young women from the other cities in the region. It has been a frequent subject of painters and sculptors, particularly since the Renaissance.
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Portrait of a Young Girl is a small oil-on-oak panel painting by the Early Netherlandish painter Petrus Christus. It was completed towards the end of his life, between 1465 and 1470, and is held in the Gemäldegalerie, Berlin. It marks a major stylistic advance in contemporary portraiture; the girl is set in an airy, three-dimensional, realistic setting, and stares out at the viewer with a complicated expression that is reserved, yet intelligent and alert.
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The Rape of Lucretia is any of several paintings, variations of the same subject, which are usually attributed to either Felice Ficherelli or Guido Cagnacci and dated to the late 1630s or about 1640.
Lucretia and Tarquin is a 1663 oil painting by Luca Giordano of the legendary rape of Lucretia by Sextus Tarquin, as told by Livy and Ovid, which is now in the Museo di Capodimonte in Naples.
The Rape of the Sabine Women may refer to at least eight paintings attributed to Luca Giordano or his workshop, all of which depict the legendary rape of the Sabine women.
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The legendary rape of the Sabine women is the subject of two oil paintings by Nicolas Poussin. The first version was painted in Rome about 1634 or 1635 and is now in the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City, catalogued as The Abduction of the Sabine Women. The second, painted in 1637 or 1638, is in the Louvre in Paris, catalogued as L'enlèvement des Sabines.