About 20 results for ‘Pliny the Elder’
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Pliny the Elder
Gaius Plinius Secundus (23 AD – August 25, 79 AD), better known as Pliny the Elder, was a Roman author, naturalist, and natural philosopher, as well as naval and army commander of the early Roman Empire, and personal friend of the emperor Vespasian. Spending most of his spare time studying, writing or investigating natural and geographic phenomena in the field, he wrote an encyclopedic work, Naturalis Historia, which became a model for all such works written subsequently. Pliny the Younger, his nephew, wrote of him in a letter to the historian Tacitus: For my part I deem those blessed to whom, by favour of the gods, it has been granted either to do what is worth writing of, or to write what is worth reading; above measure blessed those on whom both gifts have been conferred. In the latter number will be my uncle, by virtue of his own and of your compositions. Pliny is referring to the fact that Tacitus relied on his uncle's now missing work on the History of the German Wars. Pliny the Elder died on August 25, 79 AD, while attempting the rescue by ship of a friend and his family from the eruption of Mount Vesuvius that had just destroyed the cities of Pompeii and Herculaneum. The prevailing wind would not allow his ship to leave the shore. His companions attributed his collapse and death to toxic fumes; but they were unaffected by the fumes, suggesting natural causes.
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- Artist(s):
- Jacques-Louis David
Apelle peignant Campaspe en présence d'Alexandre
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- Portrayed subject:
- Alexander the Great
- Apelles
- Helmet
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- Date:
- 19th century
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- Artist(s):
- Pierre-Narcisse Guérin
Alexandre cédant Campaspe à Apelle
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- Portrayed subject:
- Alexander the Great
- Apelles
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- Date:
- 18th century
- 19th century
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- Artist(s):
- Nicolas-Guy Brenet
CAIUS FURIUS CRESSINUS ACCUSE DE SORTILEGE
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- Field(s):
- Painting
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- Date:
- 18th century
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Apelle peint le portrait de Campaspe sous le regard d'Ale...
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- Field(s):
- Drawing
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- Portrayed subject:
- Alexander the Great
- Apelles
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- Date:
- 17th century
- 18th century
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Alexandre, Apelle et Campaspe ; putto tourné vers la gauc...
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- Field(s):
- Drawing
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- Portrayed subject:
- Alexander the Great
- Apelles
- Statue
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- Date:
- 17th century
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Couronnement de La Fontaine par Esope
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- Portrayed subject:
- Aesop
- Animal
- Giovanni Boccaccio
- Petrarch
- Phaedra (mythology)
- Pliny the Elder
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- Date:
- 18th century
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- Artist(s):
- Pierre-Henri de Valenciennes
Eruption du Vésuve arrivée le 24 août de l'an 79 de JC so...
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- Field(s):
- Painting
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- Portrayed subject:
- Death
- Landscape
- Mount Vesuvius
- Pliny the Elder
- Ruins
- Volcano
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- Date:
- 18th century
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Générosité d'Alexandre ; Alexandre cède Campaspe, sa maît...
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- Field(s):
- Painting
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- Portrayed subject:
- Alexander the Great
- Apelles
- Fauteuil
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- Date:
- 19th century
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Alexandre, Campaspe et Apelle
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- Field(s):
- Drawing
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- Portrayed subject:
- Alexander the Great
- Apelles
- Statue
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- Date:
- 19th century
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La Mort de la jeune fille de Sestos (titre récent) ; Apot...
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- Field(s):
- Painting
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- Portrayed subject:
- Architecture
- City
- Moon
- Paganism
- Priesthood (Catholic Church)
- Sestos
- …
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- Date:
- 16th century
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- Artist(s):
- Jean Auguste Dominique Ingres
Pline l'Ancien (Nu, debout)
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- Field(s):
- Drawing
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- Portrayed subject:
- Man
- Pliny the Elder
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- Date:
- 19th century
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- Artist(s):
- Jean Auguste Dominique Ingres
Pausanias (son visage drapé et ses deux bras), Pline (sa ...
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- Field(s):
- Drawing
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- Portrayed subject:
- Man
- Pausanias (geographer)
- Pliny the Elder
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- Date:
- 19th century
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- Artist(s):
- Jean Auguste Dominique Ingres
Ensemble de la composition ; Alexandre cédant Campaspe à ...
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- Field(s):
- Drawing
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- Portrayed subject:
- Alexander the Great
- Apelles
- Woman
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- Date:
- 19th century
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- Artist(s):
- Jean Auguste Dominique Ingres
Ensemble de la composition ; Alexandre cédant Campaspe à ...
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- Field(s):
- Drawing
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- Portrayed subject:
- Alexander the Great
- Apelles
- Woman
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- Date:
- 19th century
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- Artist(s):
- Jean Auguste Dominique Ingres
Ensemble de la composition ; Histoire d'Alexandre le Gran...
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- Field(s):
- Drawing
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- Portrayed subject:
- Alexander the Great
- Apelles
- Woman
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- Date:
- 19th century
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- Artist(s):
- Jean Auguste Dominique Ingres
Apelle (Nu, de profil à gauche, baisant la main d'Alexand...
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- Field(s):
- Drawing
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- Portrayed subject:
- Apelles
- Hand-kissing
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- Date:
- 19th century
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- Artist(s):
- Jean Auguste Dominique Ingres
Apelle (Nu, baisant la main d'Alexandre)
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- Field(s):
- Drawing
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- Portrayed subject:
- Alexander the Great
- Apelles
- Hand-kissing
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- Date:
- 19th century
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Artémise avale les cendres de Mausole
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- Portrayed subject:
- Artemisia II of Caria
- Halicarnassus
- Tomb
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- Date:
- 18th century
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- Artist(s):
- Nöel-Nicolas Coypel
La Charité : Femme donnant le sein à un vieillard
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- Portrayed subject:
- Allegory
- Breast
- Breastfeeding
- Charity (virtue)
- Old age
- Prison
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- Date:
- 18th century
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Laocoon et ses fils
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- Field(s):
- Sculpture
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- Portrayed subject:
- Laocoön
- Snake
- Strangling
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- Date:
- 18th century
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