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The Rape of the Sabine Women (Latin: Sabinae raptae Classical Latin: [saˈbiː.nae̯ ˈrap.t̪ae̯]), also known as the Abduction of the Sabine Women or the Kidnapping of the Sabine Women, was an incident in the legendary history of Rome in which the men of Rome committed a mass abduction of young women
Legend says that the Romans abducted Sabine women to populate the newly built Rome. The resultant war ended only by the women throwing themselves and their children between the armies of their fathers and their husbands.
The Intervention of the Sabine Women is a 1799 painting by the French painter Jacques-Louis David, showing a legendary episode following the abduction of the Sabine women by the founding generation of Rome. Work on the painting commenced in 1796, after his estranged wife visited him in jail.
- 385 cm × 522 cm (152 in × 206 in)
- Jacques-Louis David
- 1799
- Louvre
According to Livy, the entire Sabine population, including women and children, came to Rome. Romulus oversees the abduction of the Sabine women (Public domain) According to Plutarch, Romulus’ signal to the men of Rome was to be whenever he rose up to gather up his cloak and throw it over his body.
25 mar 2013 · On display at the Louvre Museum, Paris, France. The Abduction (or Rape) of the Sabine Women 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.
20 mar 2008 · The story of the Sabine women can be viewed as one of symbolic conquest, the appropriation of a nation’s women representing the seizure of territory. In the highly competitive and masculinist art world of Baroque Europe, this same story could also serve as an allegory of art.
6 dic 2023 · After failed negotiations with the neighboring town of Sabine for their women, the Roman men devised a scheme to abduct the Sabine women (which they did during a summer festival). What we see in Giambologna’s sculpture is the moment when a Roman successfully captures a Sabine woman as he marches over a Sabine male who crouches down ...
