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Romulus' Victory Over Acron (Romulus, Conqueror of Acron) is a painting completed in 1812 by the French Neoclassical artist Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres. Ingres' source for this subject comes from Plutarch's Life of Romulus. The painting depicts the war that resulted from the Roman abduction of the young Sabine women in an effort to remedy the shortage of women in the newly founded city of Rome. In retaliation Acron, the king of the neighbouring tribe, the Caeninenses, declared war upon the Romans. He and his tribesmen were mercilessly defeated and their city sacked by the Romans.[2]

Style and composition

The subject, style and size of the piece make it clear that this piece embodies the Neoclassical tradition. At 276 x 530cm it is one of Ingres’ largest paintings and this grand scale is consistent with his previous classical subject paintings, such as Jupiter and Thetis.[4] The canvas is cast in the form of a long frieze, a style traditional of the ancient world. Ingres introduces several motifs from ancient art; the horse for example is a clear homage to the marble horse of the Parthenon frieze. Ingres also uses tempera to evoke the matte quality of ancient Roman frescos.[5]

In the painting there is an element of stunted action which creates a somewhat icy and unemotional aspect which is a feature of the new Gothic style that was emerging forcefully in the early 19th century.[5]

Influences

It is not just from the ancient world that Ingres took his inspiration. Elements of the painting recall the work of Jacques-Louis David, Europe's leading painter at the turn of the century and Ingres' master with whom he studied for four years. Romulus' Victory Over Acron has several points of similarity with David's The Intervention of the Sabine Women of 1799. The figure of Ingres' slain Acron closely matches that of his master's dead Sabine. The shield, depicting the she-wolf and infant twins Romulus and Remus characteristic of the Roman foundation myth, is also the same save that Ingres omitted the inscription. The warrior to the extreme left of the Sabines, whose stance derives from the antique, finds a fairly confirming echo in Ingres' victorious Romulus.[6] It has also been suggested that the pose of Romulus was inspired by a fragment of a Roman bas-relief after a work by Phidias, a classical Greek sculptor.[7]

Commissioning and history

The painting—together with The Dream of Ossian—was commissioned by General Miollis in 1811 for Napoleon Bonaparte's residence, the Palazzo Monte Cavallo (now the Palazzo Quirinale) and was intended as decoration of the empress's second salon.[4] In 1815 the Romulus was taken out of the Quirinale and brought to the Palazzo di San Giovanni in Laterano. In 1857 it was given by Pope Pius IX to Napoleon III who presented it to the Ecole des Beaux-Arts, where it was hung in the Amphithéatre d'Honneur,[7] until 1969 when it was deposited at the Louvre. In January 2017 it returned to the Ecole des Beaux-arts for restoration before being re-installed in the newly restored Amphithéatre d'Honneur (May 2017).[8]

References

Bibliography

• Daniel Ternois, Ingres, Paris, Fernand Nathan, 1980 (ISBN 2-09-284-557-8)
• Robert Rosenblum, Ingres, Paris, Cercle d'Art, coll. « La Bibliothèque des Grands Peintres », 1986 (ISBN 2-7022-0192-X)

На других языках

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- [en] Romulus' Victory Over Acron

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[fr] Romulus, vainqueur d'Acron

Romulus, vainqueur d'Acron est un tableau à thème historique peint à Rome par Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres en 1812. Commande du pouvoir Impérial, à l'occasion d'une visite de Napoléon Ier à Rome, le tableau de dimensions monumentales, était destiné à décorer le salon de l'impératrice dans le palais du Quirinal. Inspiré d'un récit de Plutarque sur l'histoire romaine, Ingres choisit de donner un caractère archaïque à l'œuvre en employant la technique de la tempera à l'exemple des maîtres de la Renaissance italienne comme Mantegna. Le tableau fait partie des collections de l'école nationale supérieure des beaux-arts de Paris.

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[it] Romolo vincitore di Acrone

Romolo vincitore di Acrone porta le spoglie opimi al tempio di Giove[1] (Romulus, vainqueur d'Acron, porte les dépouilles opimes au temple de Jupiter), comunemente abbreviato in Romolo vincitore di Acrone[2] (Romulus, vainqueur d'Acron), è un dipinto completato nel 1812 dall'artista neoclassico francese Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres. L'opera è conservata alla scuola nazionale superiore di belle arti di Parigi.[3] Il dipinto misura 276 centimetri d'altezza e 530 di lunghezza, il che ne rende una delle opere di dimesione maggiori eseguite da Ingres.

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[ru] Ромул, победивший Акрона

«Ромул, победивший Акрона» (фр. Romulus, vainqueur d'Acron) — картина Жана Огюста Доминика Энгра, французского художника, написанная в 1812 году. Источником для сюжета картины послужило жизнеописание Ромула Плутарха. На ней изображена война, которая произошла в результате похищения римлянами молодых сабинянок в попытке восполнить нехватку женщин в недавно основанном городе Риме. В отместку Акрон, сабинский царь соседнего города Ценина, объявил войну римлянам. Он и его соплеменники были безжалостно разбиты, а их город разграблен римлянами[3].

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