Plate with Hannibal Sacking Venusia

1550-1560 (Renaissance)

24.3 cm 3.6 cm

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This plate is part of a large service depicting episodes from the Second Punic War (Rome’s second war with Carthage), as told in the ancient Roman historian Livy’s (59 BCE-17CE) History of Rome. The numbering on the extant pieces goes up to 141, of which this is no. 74. In the...

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Henry Walters, Baltimore [date and mode of acquisition unknown]; Walters Art Museum, 1931, by bequest.
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en
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