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Horatius Cocles Defending the Sublician Bridge
Also titled Horatius Cocles verdedigt de Pons Sublitius
c. 1450
- Medium
- panel, tempera
- Classification
- painting
- Dimensions
- height 40 cm x width 128 cm
- Museum
- Rijksmuseum
- Credit line
- Gift of Mr and Mrs Kessler-Hülsmann, Kapelle op den Bosch
- Rights
- Public Domain Mark, 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
About this work
Pieces of Italian furniture, especially chests (cassoni), were often decorated with scenes from legends and Classical antiquity. Although cassoni were painted by some of the most important artists, the majority were produced by anonymous decorative painters. This panel, from one such cassone, depicts the Roman general Horatius Cocles defending the bridge to Rome against the Etruscans.
