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Description: | Without offspring early Rome faced extinction. Local tribes refused to provide them with brides, so the Romans tricked the neighbouring Sabines into attending a festival. When the signal was given, Roman men attacked the Sabines and carried off the young women. Luca Giordano, one of the most celebrated and successful artists of the Neapolitan Baroque, represented this legend on several occasions. Giordano focused his composition on the struggling woman carried off by a Roman in a plumed helmet. Her plump white flesh signals both her fecundity and her vulnerability, and contrasts with the dark muscular body and impenetrable armour of her assailant. | Subjects: | mythology (Rape of the Sabine Women) | Source: | Vads | Creator: | Artist: Giordano, Luca (Italian painter, 1634-1705, active in Italy and Spain) Æ | Identifier: | http://www.vads.ac.uk/large.php?uid=8884... | Go to resource |
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