Scipio Africanus Freeing Massiva

1719-1721 (Baroque)

487.6 cm 279.4 cm

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As described by the Roman historian Livy (1st century BCE), Massiva was the youthful nephew of Massinissa, a prince of ancient Numidia (located in parts of present-day Algeria and Tunisia) in North Africa, who fought against the Romans in 209 BCE. Massiva had been forbidden to...

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Don Marcello Massarenti Collection, Rome [date and mode of acquisition unknown] [1897 catalogue: no. 404]; Henry Walters, Baltimore, 1902, by purchase; Walters Art Museum, 1931, by bequest.
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