Pompey's Head Brought to Julius Caesar

ca. 1450 (Renaissance)

53.3 cm 38.3 cm 1 cm

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According to the ancient writer Plutarch (45 CE-127 CE) in his famous book “Parallel Lives,” during the Roman civil war, the Roman general Pompey went back on his military alliance with Julius Caesar and tried to take asylum in Egypt. Fearing that welcoming Pompey would lead t...

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Don Marcello Massarenti Collection, Rome [date and mode of acquisition unknown] [1897 catalogue: no. 82, as Paolo Uccello]; Henry Walters, Baltimore, 1902, by purchase; Walters Art Museum, 1931, by bequest.
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