Mary Beard – Nationwide Gallery of Artwork
My favorite historian and interpreter of antiquity, the nice Mary Beard, has the irreplaceable reward of creating historical Rome, its historical past and particularly its individuals, as alive as in the event that they have been proper right here with us.
Right here she tells us about an historical Roman, the Emperor Tiberius and his nice love, Agrippina, in a portray by Peter Paul Rubens within the Nationwide Gallery of Artwork in Washington DC, a tragic little love story. However is it actually Agrippina and, if that’s the case, which one? Is it actually Tiberius? Or is it Germanicus?
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