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The Death of Epaminondas
Also titled Het sterfbed van Epaminondas
Isaac Walraven (Amsterdam, 1686–1765)
1726
- Medium
- panel, oil paint (paint)
- Classification
- painting
- Dimensions
- height 61 cm x width 80 cm
- Museum
- Rijksmuseum
- 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
Epaminondas was a Theban general who led the battle against Sparta in ancient Greece. His death from this struggle is an episode that was seldom depicted. These kinds of far-fetched and complex compositions were popular in the early 18th century. They allowed the painter to display his erudition and his masterly command of the full range of human feelings and emotional states.
