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The Triumph of Marius

The Triumph of Marius





Relationship with : Cybèle
Lucius Anneus Florus

Date : approx. between 1725 and 1729

Material : Painting on canvas
Acquisition : Rogers Fund (1965)
Metropolitan Museum of Art

Center
First Floor - Section 1
Item 7 on 8
Italian Painting
Painting

Area related
Venise (Italy)
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Description   

The subject of this triumphal procession is identified by a Latin inscription at the top of the canvas from the Roman historian Lucius Anneus Florus (Epitome of Roman History, 36:17) : "The Roman people behold Jugurtha laden with chains".

The African king Jugurtha si shown descending a hill before his captor, the Roman general Gaius Marius. A youth beats a tambourine while others figures carry booty, including a bust of the mother goodess Cybele. The thirty-year-old Tiepolo included his portrait among the figures at the left. The procession was held on January 1, 104 B.C.

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.

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