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Title
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Asesinado Julio Cesar en el Senado Venus le transforma en cometa
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Description
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This image depicts the famous assassination of Julius Caesar at a meeting of the Senate. Caesar is in the centre of the image lying on the steps of the Theatre of Pompey as the other senators stab him to death. The goddess Venus is depicted floating on a bed of clouds above the scene as Caesar had claimed to be related to Venus through the bloodline of Aeneas. Venus transforms Caesar into a constellation and deifies him once he is dead.
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Image Creator
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D. José Assensio (Engraver)
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Identifier
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mta:25150
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Source Name
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Metamorfoseos o Transformaciones de Ovidio, Traducidos al Castellano con Algunas Notas Para su Inteligencia, Por Don Francisco Crivell [Metamorphoses or Transformations of Ovid, Translated into Castilian with Notes for your Intelligence, By Don Francisco Crivell]
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Image
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mta_25150_OBJ.jpg
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Subject
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Assassination
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Julius Caesar
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Venus
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Deification
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Mythology