Image: 0 Gemma Tiberiana - Rubens - Ashmolean Museum - WA1989.74

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Description: In 1620, Nicolas-Claude Fabri de Peiresc, French antiquary, discovered a large Roman cameo in the Treasury of the Sainte-Chapelle in Paris, in which he recognized a number of Roman Imperial portraits, now generally thought to represent Germanicus taking leave of his parents, the Emperor Tiberius and his mother, Livia, with other members of the Julio-Claudian family, past and present. In 1621, Peiresc suggested to Rubens to paint this.
Title: Gemma Tiberiana, "The Apotheosis of Germanicus"
Credit: Self-photographed, User:Jean-Pol GRANDMONT (2013)
Author: Peter Paul Rubens
Permission: This illustration was made by Jean-Pol GRANDMONT Please credit this : Jean-Pol GRANDMONT An email to Jean-Pol GRANDMONT would be appreciated.
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