Alexander the Great Cutting the Gordian Knot

ca. 1718-1719 (Baroque)

59.7 cm 73.3 cm

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In this companion to "Alexander the Great at the Tomb of Achilles" (Walters 37.510), the Macedonian ruler and general has entered the town of Gordium (in present-day Turkey) in 344 BC. In that city was the chariot of Gordius, the father of the legendary King Midas. The yoke of...

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Don Marcello Massarenti Collection, Rome [date and mode of acquisition unknown] [1881 catalogue: no. 154; 1897 catalogue: no. 297]; Henry Walters, Baltimore, 1902, by purchase; Walters Art Museum, 1931, by bequest.
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