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Why might they be reacting in terror to the chaos they see?
Why might they be reacting in terror to the chaos they see?
Born in Paris in 1733, Hubert Robert was a landscape draftsman and painter whose early training was sponsored by members of the Choiseul family, the employers of his parents who were retainers in their household. In 1754 he traveled to Rome in the entourage of France’s new ambassador to the papal court, Étienne François, comte de Stainville, the future duc de Choiseul (1719–1785), a political ally of the marquise de Pompadour (1721–1764).
Imprisoned during the French Revolution, he survived the Reign of Terror.
Peter Paul Rubens (1577–1640), one of the greatest masters of the 17th century, painted this masterpiece as a young artist in Rome. Rubens depicted a moment of high drama in this popular Greek myth that was famously recounted in Ovid’s Metamorphoses (c.
seasons, which represent the harmony and order of the universe, are reacting in terror
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taking their own lives rather than being subjected to more of the slave trade’s terrors