Cato of Utica Bidding Farewell to his Son
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Cato of Utica Bidding Farewell to his Son
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Cato of Utica Bidding Farewell to his Son is a 1635 oil on canvas painting, housed at the Musée des Beaux-Arts de Marseille since 1872. It shows the aftermath of Cato the Younger's defeat by Julius Caesar at the Battle of Thapsus as told in Plutarch's Parallel Lives, with Cato breaking off from reading Plato's Dialogue on the Immortality of the Soul to say goodbye to his son just before Cato's suicide. It was one of nine works commissioned by Louis Phélypeaux, Seigneur of La Vrillière for the gi
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1635 painting
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2024-04-08T01:15:03Z
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