A crowned man holding up a sword lunges toward another man who wears a helmet and holds up both hands in this vertical painting. This happens in front of a long banquet table set with a rumpled white cloth. About a dozen people react or cling to each other on the far side of the table and more gather farther in the background. Most of the people have pale, peachy skin and wear tunics, robes, and dresses in shades of celestial and sky blue, pale yellow, forest green, peach, or white. The man holding the sword has a furrowed brow, and his lips are parted. He wears a molded yellow breastplate…
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Alexander the Great Threatened by His Father

Donato Creti (Bolognese, 1671 - 1749)

probably 1700/1705

Medium
oil on canvas
Classification
Painting
Dimensions
overall: 129.7 x 97 cm (51 1/16 x 38 3/16 in.)
Culture
Bolognese
Museum
National Gallery of Art, CIS-B
Credit line
Samuel H. Kress Collection
Rights
Public domain (NGA Open Access, CC0), as the museum states it.
Who can see it
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