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Birth of Rome, 1964 (enamel and calico on canvas)

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MEP2627338

Image title

Birth of Rome, 1964 (enamel and calico on canvas)

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Artist

Angeli, Franco (1935-1988) / Italian

Photographer

Alessandro Vasari

Location

Galleria Nazionale d'Arte Moderna e Contemporanea, Rome, Lazio, Italy

Medium

enamel and calico on canvas

Date

1964 AD (C20th AD)

Dimensions

155x200 cms

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Birth of Rome (Natale di Roma), by Franco Angeli, 1964, 20th Century, enamel and calico on canvas, 155 x 200 cm Whole artwork view. Pictorial composition that reproduces the ancient bronze of the she-wolf nursing the infants Romulus and Remus, made with liquid brushstrokes on a black background, golden for the wolf and white for the pedestal; on the background is replicated several times the acronym SPQR, while on the base is shown the famous self-celebration sentence by Octavian Augustus ANNOS UNDEVIGINTI NATUS EXERCITUM PRIVATO CONSILIO ET PRIVATA IMPENSA COMPARAVI PER QUEM REM PUBLICAM A DOMINATIONE POETIA OPPRESSAM IN LIBERTATEM National Gallery of Modern and Contemporary Art-GNAM

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Mondadori Portfolio/Archivio Vasari/Alessandro Vasari / Bridgeman Images

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