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The Lictors Bring to Brutus the Bodies of His Sons is completed

1789 CE · Europe · Culture

The Lictors Bring to Brutus the Bodies of His Sons is completed
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The Lictors Bring to Brutus the Bodies of His Sons is a work in oils by the French artist Jacques-Louis David. On a canvas of 146 square feet, this painting was first exhibited at the Paris Salon in 1789. The subject is the Roman leader Lucius Junius Brutus, founder of the Roman Republic, contemplating the fate of his sons.

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