Asset ID:
843
CMS Object ID:
372457
Accession Number:
WA2013.15
Title:
The Oath of Semiramis
Object Name:
painting
Associated person(s) + dates:
Berettini (da Cortona), Pietro (1596 - 1669) (artist) (Italian)
Object dating:
c. 1623 - 1624
Nationality:
Italian
Associated place(s):
Rome (place of creation)
Dimensions:
51.2 x 70.7 cm (height x width)
Materials/ techniques:
oil on copper
Responsible department:
Western Art
Single/ multiple object:
Single
Asset copyright notice:
© Ashmolean Museum
Key words:
- 1623-24
- 1623-4
- antiquarian
- architecture
- art
- attendants
- babylon
- cassiano
- classical
- close
- composition
- contact
- cortona
- da
- dal
- dates
- detail
- dicta
- erudite
- facta
- founder
- hair
- helmet
- historian
- legendary
- literature
- maximus
- memorabilia
- messenger
- nature
- news
- nineveh
- oath
- peace
- pietro
- pozzo
- queen
- rebellion
- roman
- semiramis
- setting
- seventeenth-century
- solemn
- source
- stage-like
- sword
- text
- theme
- toilette
- uprising
- valerius
- war-like
- weapons
- woman
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