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Bernardino Fungai
The Magnanimity of Scipio Africanus
Literature
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Bernardino Fungai
The Magnanimity of Scipio Africanus
62 x 166 cm
Tempera and oil on panel
Hermitage, St. Petersburg
Literature
Colin Eisler,
Paintings in the Hermitage
, New York, 1990, p. 93
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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