According to the Livy's ' History of Rome' (VII, 6), Marcus Curtius sacrificed himself to save Rome by plunging on horseback into a chasm that had opened in the Roman Forum. ...

Create your own bespoke print of Thomas Gainsborough’s Margaret Gainsborough holding a Theorbo from our collection. About this painting Portrait of Margaret Gainsborough holding a Theorbo, about 1777 © The National Gallery, London Accepted in lieu of Inheritance Tax by HM Government from the estate of George Pinto & allocated to the National Gallery, 2019 With our custom print service, you can order your own fully customised reproduction from the National Gallery Collection & exhibitions. Choose your own size, print material & frames & have your masterpiece delivered straight to your door. ...

' Philip the Handsome' became Philip I of Castile; he wears the collar of the Golden Fleece. His sister Margaret of Austria (1480
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Create your own bespoke print of Joseph Mallord William Turner’s Margate (?), from the Sea from our collection. About this painting Margate (?), from the Sea, about 1835-40 © The National Gallery, London This painting joined our collection in 1856 With our custom print service, you can order your own fully customised reproduction from the National Gallery Collection & exhibitions. Choose your own size, print material & frames & have your masterpiece delivered straight to your door. ...

Create your own bespoke print of William Hogarth’s Marriage A-la-Mode: 1, The Marriage Settlement from our collection. About this painting Marriage A-la-Mode: 1, The Marriage Settlement, about 1743 © The National Gallery, London This painting joined our collection in 1824 With our custom print service, you can order your own fully customised reproduction from the National Gallery Collection & exhibitions. Choose your own size, print material & frames & have your masterpiece delivered straight to your door. ...

Create your own bespoke print of William Hogarth’s Marriage A-la-Mode: 3, The Inspection from our collection. About this painting Marriage A-la-Mode: 3, The Inspection, about 1743 © The National Gallery, London This painting joined our collection in 1824 With our custom print service, you can order your own fully customised reproduction from the National Gallery Collection & exhibitions. Choose your own size, print material & frames & have your masterpiece delivered straight to your door. ...

Create your own bespoke print of William Hogarth’s Marriage A-la-Mode: 4, The Toilette from our collection. About this painting Marriage A-la-Mode: 4, The Toilette, about 1743 © The National Gallery, London This painting joined our collection in 1824 With our custom print service, you can order your own fully customised reproduction from the National Gallery Collection & exhibitions. Choose your own size, print material & frames & have your masterpiece delivered straight to your door. ...

Create your own bespoke print of William Hogarth’s Marriage A-la-Mode: 5, The Bagnio from our collection. About this painting Marriage A-la-Mode: 5, The Bagnio, about 1743 © The National Gallery, London This painting joined our collection in 1824 With our custom print service, you can order your own fully customised reproduction from the National Gallery Collection & exhibitions. Choose your own size, print material & frames & have your masterpiece delivered straight to your door. ...

' Marriage A-la-Mode' was the first of Hogarth's satirical moralising series of engravings about the upper echelons of society. The paintings were models from which the engravings would be made. The engravings reverse the compositions. The final scene takes place in the house of the Countess's father. She has taken poison on learning that her lover has been hanged for the murder of the Earl, reported in the broadsheet at her feet. Her crippled child embraces her & her father removes a ring from her finger as a suicide's possessions were forfeit. In the centre an apothecary remonstrates with the servant whom he accuses of obtaining the poison. Through the window to the right is a view of Old London Bridge. A dog seizes his chance to make off with the frugal meal on the table. The paintings on the wall to the left are Dutch low-life scenes, indicating the taste of the alderman. ...

Venus was the goddess of Love & Mars the god of War. Venus was the wife of Vulcan & her adultery with Mars was notorious. The hairstyle of the goddess in the painting suggests the approximate dating. ...