The Continence of Scipio

The Continence of Scipio

Artist: Giulio Licinio (Italian, c. 1527 - after 1591)

Original Dimensions: 14" x 60 1/4"

Location: National Gallery of Art, London

About Artwork: (After 1566) "The Continence of Scipio is one of a series of paintings that show scenes from ancient Roman history. They were probably intended to be inserted into wall panelling. Three other pictures in the series are in the National Gallery’s collection: The Attack on Cartagena, The Rape of the Sabines and The Intervention of the Sabine Women. The painting depicts an event that reveals the Roman general Scipio Africanus’s clemency as a military leader. During Scipio’s campaign against the Carthaginians in Iberia his troops took a beautiful young woman prisoner. Here, the young woman stands behind the seated Scipio in a modest pose based on classical statues of Venus (known in Latin as Venus pudica). Rather than abusing her, Scipio allows the young woman to return to her fiancé, provided that her family become friends of Rome. The ransom raised by her family is being unloaded from camels, but Scipio returns it as a wedding gift, thereby showing both financial and sexual restraint." - (National Gallery of Art, London)

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