Roman Triumph

If you think about powerful women from history, which names come to mind? In the 1490s, Andrea Mantegna made this series of four female heroes, including the Carthaginian noblewoman Sophonisba poisoning herself to avoid being paraded in a Roman triumph, the Roman Vestal Virgin Tuccia proving her chastity by carrying water in a sieve, Judith with the head of Holofernes, and Dido holding Sychaeus’s funeral urn. And they are painted in a so-called grisaille technique, imitating a 2-dimensional scul

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