Belisarius Begging for Alms

Jacques-Louis David

1781

Palais des Beaux-Arts de Lille

Lille, France

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painting by Jacques-Louis David

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Medium

oil paint

Dimensions

288 × 312 cm

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'Belisarius asking for alms') is a large-format (288 × 312 cm) history painting in oil on canvas by the French artist Jacques-Louis David. It depicts the Byzantine general Belisarius, who heroically defeated the Vandals in North Africa in AD 533–534 on behalf of Justinian I, and (according to an apocryphal account probably added to his biography in the Middle Ages) was later blinded by the emperor and reduced to begging for alms on the street.