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The Batavians Defeating the Romans on the Rhine
Also titled De Bataven verslaan de Romeinen bij de Rijn
Otto van Veen (Leiden, 1556–1629)
1600 - 1613
- Medium
- panel, oil paint (paint)
- Classification
- painting
- Dimensions
- height 38 cm x width 52 cm
- Museum
- Rijksmuseum
- Rights
- Public Domain Mark, as the museum states it.
- Who can see it
- Adult profiles and older: its museum's description or title mentions violence, death or gore. How works are placed
About this work
In 1613, the Dutch parliament (States General) commissioned Otto van Veen to paint twelve paintings depicting the revolt of the Batavians against the Romans in AD 69 and 70. These were displayed in Binnenhof, the central government building in The Hague. In the early years of the Dutch Republic, many compared their own revolt against Spain to the Batavian uprising.
