20 Works – February 5, 146 BC Punic Wars ended; as did the power of the great Hannibal Barca, with footnotes

After Giulio Romano
Detail; Zama’s Battle, c. last third of XVI century
Oil on canvas
144×209 cm
Pushkin Fine Arts Museum, Moscow.

The Battle of Zama in the summer of 202 BC marked the end of the power of the great Hannibal Barca. With its greatest son, also Carthage should be at a virtual end. True, it should limp on for some time, but with its defeat at the end of the Second Punic War it no longer was a significant power.

Zama also marks the pinnacle in the career of the outstanding Roman general Publius Cornelius Scipio, whose reforms to the Roman army made him legendary.

In 204 BC, after fourteen years of war, Roman troops landed in North Africa with the goal of directly attacking Carthage…

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16 Works – February 5, 146 BC Punic Wars ended; as did the power of the great Hannibal Barca

Unknown Roman artist, last third of XVI century
Detail; Zama’s Battle, c. last third of XVI century
Oil on canvas
144×209 cm
Pushkin Fine Arts Museum, Moscow

The Battle of Zama in the summer of 202 BC marked the end of the power of the great Hannibal Barca. With its greatest son, also Carthage should be at a virtual end. True, it should limp on for some time, but with its defeat at the end of the Second Punic War it no longer was a significant power.

Zama also marks the pinnacle in the career of the outstanding Roman general Publius Cornelius Scipio, whose reforms to the Roman army made him legendary…

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06 Paintings, Streets of Rome, 18th & 19th Century, by the Artists of the time, with footnotes. 4

Danish School, 19th Century
A view of the Campidoglio, Rome
Oil on canvas
13 ¾ x 17 ¼ in. (35 x 43.8 cm.)
Private Collection

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05 works, Today, November 23rd, is Felicitas of Rome’s day, her story, illustrated #326

Neri di Bicci, (1419–1491)
Enthroned Saint Felicita and her seven children, c. 1464
Santa Felicita Church, Florence

Felicitas of Rome (c. 101–165), also anglicized as Felicity, is a saint numbered among the Christian martyrs.

Saint Felicitas is said to have been a rich and pious Christian widow who had seven sons. She devoted herself to charitable work and converted many to the Christian faith by her example. This aroused the wrath of pagan priests who lodged a complaint against her with Emperor Marcus Aurelius…

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06 Works, Today, June 30th, is First Martyrs’ day, their story in Paintings #181

Jan van Eyck
First Martyrs of the Church of Rome, c. 1432
(The Ghent Altarpiece; wings open)
Oil on wood
350 x 461 cm
Cathedral of St Bavo, Ghent

The First Martyrs of the Church of Rome were Christians martyred in the city of Rome during Nero’s persecution in 64. They are celebrated in the Roman Catholic Church as an optional memorial on 30 June.

There were early Christians in Rome within a dozen or so years after the death of Jesus, though they were not the converts of Paul. He had not yet visited them at the time he wrote his Epistle to the Romans in 57–58 AD. Paul wrote to a community of both Jews and Gentiles…

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05 Works, Today, January 18th, Saint Prisca’s Day, With Footnotes – 18

Unknown
Martyr Priscilla of Rome

Saint Prisca was a young Roman woman allegedly tortured and executed for her Christian faith. The dates of her birth and death are unknown. She is revered as a Western saint and martyr by the Orthodox Church and as a saint and a martyr by the Roman Catholic Church and the Anglican Communion. Especially in England, she is honored as a child martyr. January 18 is her feast day…

 

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05 Works, RELIGIOUS ART – Today, January 18th, Saint Prisca’s Day, With Footnotes – 18

Unknown
Martyr Priscilla of Rome

Saint Prisca was a young Roman woman allegedly tortured and executed for her Christian faith. The dates of her birth and death are unknown. She is revered as a Western saint and martyr by the Orthodox Church and as a saint and a martyr by the Roman Catholic Church and the Anglican Communion. Especially in England, she is honored as a child martyr. January 18 is her feast day.

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