Belisarius Begging for Alms
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title:
Belisarius Begging for Alms
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Belisarius Begging for Alms is a large-format 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 was later blinded by the emperor and reduced to begging for alms on the street. David exhibited the work at the Salon of 1781 after returning from Italy and it proved a great success. It is now in the Palais des Beaux-Arts in Lille.
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Painting by Jacques-Louis David
original url:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Belisarius_Begging_for_Alms
date created:
2009-02-04T14:21:43Z
date modified:
2024-09-01T04:59:26Z
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