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Giovanni Battista Tiepolo
Scipio Africanus Freeing Massiva
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Giovanni Battista Tiepolo
Scipio Africanus Freeing Massiva
c. 1720
279.4 x 487.6 cm
Oil on canvas
The Walters Museum, Baltimore
Literature
The Walters Art Gallery
, London, 1997, p. 57
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98B(SCIPIO AFRICANUS MAJOR)51
The continence of Scipio: he restores a captive woman to her bridegroom Allucius, who kneels before him; the ransom offered by the bride's parents is given to Allucius as a wedding-gift
Other works by Giovanni Battista Tiepolo
Allegorical Figures Representing Virtue and Abundance
1760
The Chariot of Aurora
1760s
The Meeting of Antony and Cleopatra
Queen Zenobia Addressing Her Soldiers
c. 1730
Rinaldo Enchanted by Armida
1742/45