The dresden picture was destroyed during the bombing of February 1945
The picture in Genoa
The picture in Chicago

The Rape of the Sabine Women may refer to at least eight paintings attributed to Luca Giordano or his workshop, all of which depict the legendary rape of the Sabine women.[1][a]

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Notes

  1. ^ The story is told by Livy and Plutarch.[2] Romulus, his people having been refused the right of connubium or legal marriage by the Sabines and the Latins, instituted games in honour of the god Census and invited his neighbours with their wives and children to the festival. When they were assembled, the Roman youths seized and carried off the virgins and made them their wives. This led to war, and both parties were nearly exhausted with the struggle when the Sabine women rushed in among the combatants and brought about a reconciliation between their husbands and their fathers.[3]

References

  1. ^ Feinberg 1997, p. 39.
  2. ^ Plut. Rom. 14; Liv. 1.13.
  3. ^ a b Champlin & Perkins, eds. 1887, p. 96.
  4. ^ "Ratto delle Sabine (GNL 0075/2010)". Musei Nazionale di Genova Palazzo Spinola.
  5. ^ "The Abduction of the Sabine Women (1991.295)". Art Institute of Chicago.
  6. ^ "Il ratto delle Sabine [The rape of the Sabine women] (2000.33)". National Gallery of Australia.

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