A woman wearing a breastplate and helmet over a toga stands to our left on a platform, gesturing with one arm extended to a group of about a dozen soldiers gathered around her in this horizontal painting. The woman has pale white skin and most of the soldiers have ruddy complexions. The woman stands with her body facing us but she turns her head to our right, looking toward but not at the knot of soldiers clustered there. She leans on her right elbow, on our left, resting on the flat top of a broken column, and she holds a scepter in that hand. Her other arm is raised and her fingers are…
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Queen Zenobia Addressing Her Soldiers

Giovanni Battista Tiepolo (Venetian, 1696 - 1770)

1725/1730

Medium
oil on canvas
Classification
Painting
Dimensions
overall: 261.4 x 365.8 cm (102 15/16 x 144 in.) ; framed: 292.1 x 397 x 8.5 cm (115 x 156 5/16 x 3 3/8 in.)
Culture
Venetian
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
Teens profiles and older: its subject is for older viewers (war, death, the Passion, drink or the like). How works are placed

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