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The Rape of the Sabines: Directed by Robert A. Stemmle. With Bernhard Wildenhain, Max Gülstorff, Maria Koppenhöfer, Ilse Petri. Turn of the century comedy about a German professor who sees a classical tragedy he wrote in his youth turned into a farce by a shyster theater producer.
Title: The Rape of the Sabines. Artist: Andrea Andreani (Italian, Mantua 1558/1559–1629) Artist: After a bronze plaque by Giambologna (Netherlandish, Douai 1529–1608 Florence) Date: 1585. Medium: Chiaroscuro woodcut in three sections (joined), each printed from four blocks. Dimensions: Sheet (left panel, trimmed to block line): 29 3/8 × 10 ...
In this way the population was doubled, and that some concession might after all be granted the Sabines, the citizens were named Quirites, from the town of Cures. 2 [6] As a reminder of this battle they gave the name of Curtian Lake to the pool where the horse of Curtius first emerged from the deep swamp and brought his rider to safety. 3 The sudden exchange of so unhappy a war for a joyful ...
A early film adaptation of "The Rape of the Sabines" which is an episode in the legendary history of Rome, traditionally said to have taken place in 750 BC, in which the first generation of Roman men acquired wives for themselves from the neighboring Sabine families.
The scholar Vincenzo Borghini was the one who proposed the name Rape of the Sabine Women, inspired by the famous episode of Roman history. The preparatory version at the Accademia is an extreme rarity, since only a handful of life-size 16th-century models have come down to us intact, in part due to the fragility of the material used: unfired ...
Rape of the Sabines. The episode, narrated by Plutarch and Titus Livy, depicts the legendary origins of Rome. The artist represented the scene in a way entirely different from the Sacrifice of Polyxena. There, symmetry is abandoned in favor of dynamic and centrifugal movement, and the entire composition is based on diagonal lines.
ITALIAN (FLORENTINE); ca. 1579. 1092-1854. This sketch-model for the marble group of the Rape of the Sabines in the Loggia dei Lanzi, Florence (installed 1582), was once in the collection of Sir Thomas Lawrence. It shows a later stage in the development of the design than the wax model 4125-1854 (exhibited nearby).
