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Description: | Numa Pompilius was the mythical second king of Rome who succeeded Romulus and reigned from 715-673 BC. This painting is an eighteenth- or early nineteenth-century copy of a fresco by Polidoro da Caravaggio in the Villa Lante at Viterbo, near Rome. Although the copy contains the same number of figures and very similar architectural elements to the original, it is condensed in width and expanded in height, creating a rather crowded effect. | Subjects: | history (Numa Pompilius); figure; buildings and gardens; landscape | Source: | Vads | Creator: | Artist: Polidoro da Caravaggio (Italian painter, ca. 1497-ca. 1543) Æ After | Identifier: | http://www.vads.ac.uk/large.php?uid=8622... | Go to resource |
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