# Horatius Cocles Defending the Sublician Bridge

- By: anonymous
- Date: c. 1450
- Medium: panel, tempera
- Classification: painting
- Dimensions: height 40 cm x width 128 cm
- Credit line: Gift of Mr and Mrs Kessler-Hülsmann, Kapelle op den Bosch
- Museum: [Rijksmuseum](https://www.rijksmuseum.nl/en/collection/object/SK-A-3302--767a0affeaf557557d612b0c29bffc83)
- Rights: [Public Domain Mark](http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/)
- Picture: https://invisiblenetwork.ai/thumbs/web/293a7a269430ce8dc217daa116423fd5.jpg
- Who can see it: Teens profiles and older (museums give no ratings; placed by Invisible Network from the museum's own words)

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.