{"id":4875,"date":"2015-02-23T10:00:02","date_gmt":"2015-02-23T10:00:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/vangoyourself.wpengine.com\/?p=4875"},"modified":"2015-07-16T11:40:27","modified_gmt":"2015-07-16T11:40:27","slug":"the-emperor-augustus-rebuking-cornelius-cinna-for-his-treachery","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vangoyourself.com\/paintings\/the-emperor-augustus-rebuking-cornelius-cinna-for-his-treachery\/","title":{"rendered":"The Emperor Augustus Rebuking Cornelius Cinna for His Treachery"},"content":{"rendered":"

This painting by French painter\u00a0Del\u00e9cluze depicts \u00a0the moment when Roman Emperor Augustus confronts Cornelius Cinna about his role in a conspiracy to assassinate the Emperor. The scene is modelled after a scene from the play Cinna<\/em> by French tragedian Pierre Corneille, one of the three great seventeenth-century French dramatists along with\u00a0Moli\u00e8re and Racine.<\/p>\n

Although Cinna’s pose reveals his anxiety at being found out. he needn’t have worried. Despite Augustus’ stern pose, he actually pardoned Cinna and gave him a seat in his government.<\/p>\n

After the assassination of Julius Caesar in 44BC, his great-nephew Octavian was proclaimed his heir and became the first Roman Emperor under the name Augustus. Cornelius Cinna was the brother of Julius Caesar’s wife and it was in 4AD that he plotted to assassinate Augustus. At that time, Augustus would have been about 65 years old, so it’s unlikely he would have really looked so youthful! Augustus kept a tight control on how he was depicted in official art \u00a0throughout his reign, ensuring that his image remained youthful and idealised right until his death.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

This painting by French painter\u00a0Del\u00e9cluze depicts \u00a0the moment when Roman Emperor Augustus confronts Cornelius Cinna about his role in a conspiracy to assassinate the Emperor. The scene is modelled after a scene from the play Cinna by French tragedian Pierre Corneille, one of the three great seventeenth-century French dramatists along with\u00a0Moli\u00e8re and Racine. Although Cinna’s … Continue reading The Emperor Augustus Rebuking Cornelius Cinna for His Treachery<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":4876,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"image","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vangoyourself.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4875"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vangoyourself.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vangoyourself.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vangoyourself.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vangoyourself.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4875"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vangoyourself.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4875\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vangoyourself.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4876"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vangoyourself.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4875"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vangoyourself.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4875"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}