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Description: | This watercolour illustrates a story by the ancient Roman writer Livy. In the story, a wide gap opened in the forum (market place) at Rome. Marcus Curtius believed that a human sacrifice was required to save the city. He rode his horse into the gulf, and the gulf then closed over him. John Martin often chose scenes of destruction from literature or the Bible. However, the tiny scale of this picture makes it unusual, as his pictures usually partly relied on their large size for impact. | License: | http://www.imagine.org.uk/about/copyright/ | Rights holder: | Tyne & Wear Museums | Subjects: | beyond the North East art movement artists watercolours art North East artists buildings people | Source: | Tyne and Wear Imagine | Identifier: | http://www.imagine.org.uk/details/index.... | Go to resource |
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