Ruth Leon recommends…Mary Beard – National Gallery of Art
Ruth Leon recommendsMary Beard – National Gallery of Art
My favourite historian and interpreter of antiquity, the great Mary Beard, has the irreplaceable gift of making ancient Rome, its history and especially its people, as alive as if they were right here with us.
Here she tells us about an ancient Roman, the Emperor Tiberius and his great love, Agrippina, in a painting by Peter Paul Rubens in the National Gallery of Art in Washington DC, a sad little love story. But is it really Agrippina and, if so, which one? Is it really Tiberius? Or is it Germanicus?
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