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Source Description
In this canvas, the artist shows Titus returning to Rome in triumph following his capture of Jerusalem in AD 70. His father, Emperor Vespasian, clad in a white toga, leads the procession. Titus comes next, holding the hand of his daughter, Julia, who turns to address her father's younger brother and successor, Domitian. In the background is the Temple of Jupiter Victor. Among the spoils from Jerusalem is a 7-branched candlestick from the temple.Alma-Tadema depicted these events by drawing on classical sources, like the reliefs on of the Arch of Titus and on the latest 19th-century scholarship regarding everyday life in Rome.
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Document identity
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11173
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The Triumph of Titus: AD 71, The Flavians
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drawing
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11173
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drawing
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title
The Triumph of Titus: AD 71, The Flavians
description
In this canvas, the artist shows Titus returning to Rome in triumph following his capture of Jerusalem in AD 70. His father, Emperor Vespasian, clad in a white toga, leads the procession. Titus comes next, holding the hand of his daughter, Julia, who turns to address her father's younger brother and successor, Domitian. In the background is the Temple of Jupiter Victor. Among the spoils from Jerusalem is a 7-branched candlestick from the temple.Alma-Tadema depicted these events by drawing on classical sources, like the reliefs on of the Arch of Titus and on the latest 19th-century scholarship regarding everyday life in Rome.
provenance
Commissioned by William T. Walters, Baltimore, 1881 [Charles W. Deschamps, London, acting as agent; received in 1885]; inherited by Henry Walters, Baltimore, 1894; by bequest Walters Art Museum, 1931.
date
1885
citationUrl
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CC0
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en
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Painting & Drawing
oil paintings (visual works)
panel paintings
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1
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1
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import
dimensions
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cm
width
44.3
height
29
dimensionsRaw
H: 17 7/16 x W:11 7/16 in. (44.3 x 29 cm); Framed H: 29 × W: 23 × D: 3 1/4 in. (73.66 × 58.42 × 8.26 cm)
Source extras
inscriptions
[Signature] At right on steps: L. Alma Tadema Op CCLXIX (1883)
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oil on panel
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4782
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EAN
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2113
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3441
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photo
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