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Date : approx. between 1725 and 1729
Material : Painting on canvas
Acquisition : Rogers Fund (1965)
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Italian Painting
Painting
Area related
Venise (Italy)
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The subjet on this picture has been variously identified. It seems to show the capture of Carthage by Cornelius Scipio Aemilianus (later known as Scipio Africanus the Younger) in 146 B.C., a momentous event that definitely ended the power of Carthage. The carnage was unspeakable, and the city burned for seventeen days.
The picture - a masterpiece of Tiepolo's early maturity - is from a series of ten canvases painted about 1725-1729 to decorate the main room of the Ca'Dolfin, Venice. The event probably carried and allusion to the recent campaigns of the Venitians against the Turks in the Mediterranean and the military participation of Daniele Dolfin.
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