Asesinado Julio Cesar en el Senado Venus le transforma en cometa · Centre for Early Modern Visual Culture

Title: Asesinado Julio Cesar en el Senado Venus le transforma en cometa
Period: 1800-1850;
Geographic: Ancient Rome; Italy
Description: 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.
Image Creator: D. José Assensio (Engraver)
Type: Text; Engraving
Identifier: mta:25150
Language: spa
Source Name: 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]
Parent Collection: Metamorfoseos o Transformaciones de Ovidio Traducidos al Castellano. Engravings by D. Jose Assensio (1819)
Image: mta_25150_OBJ.jpg
Collection: Ovid's Metamorphoses
Subject: Assassination; Julius Caesar; Venus; Deification; Mythology