
1842
San Francisco, United States
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Description
painting by Benjamin Robert Haydon (1786–1846), Royal Albert Memorial Museum & Art Gallery
Medium
oil paint
💡 Did you know
It depicts a scene from the early Roman Republic recorded by Livy. Marcus Curtius bravely leaps into a giant hole that had opened up in the Roman Forum in an act of self-sacrifice in order to save the city.