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This painting refers to the massacres during the Wars of Religion in France: on April 6, 1561 <a href="//commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Anne_de_Montmorency" title="Anne de Montmorency">Anne de Montmorency</a> was joined by <a href="//commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Jacques_d%27Albon_de_Saint-Andr%C3%A9" title="Category:Jacques d'Albon de Saint-André">Jacques d'Albon de Saint-André</a> and the <a href="//commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Francis,_Duke_of_Guise" title="Category:Francis, Duke of Guise">Francis, Duke of Guise</a> in an anti-Protestant Triumvirate. Antoine Caron also reminds the Civil Wars and the massacres carried out by <a href="//commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Marcus_Antonius" title="Category:Marcus Antonius">Mark Antony</a>, Octavius, the later emperor <a href="//commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=Gaius_Julius_Caesar_Octavians_Augustus&amp;action=edit&amp;redlink=1" class="new" title="Gaius Julius Caesar Octavians Augustus (page does not exist)">Augustus</a> and <a href="//commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Marcus_Aemilius_Lepidus_(triumvir)" title="Marcus Aemilius Lepidus (triumvir)">Lepidus</a> when they became triumvirs in 43 BC. The Roman ancient and contemporary monuments, and sculptures, the Apollo Belvedere and the Dioscuri, are painted after <a href="//commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Antonio_Lafreri" title="Category:Antonio Lafreri">Antoine Lafréry's</a> engravings. Caron had never been to Italy. On the right are Emperor <a href="//commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commodus" title="Commodus">Commodus</a> as <a href="//commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Herakles_Telephos_Chiaramonti_Inv1314.jpg" title="File:Herakles Telephos Chiaramonti Inv1314.jpg"> Hercules</a>, discovered in 1507; the <a href="//commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Arch_of_Constantine_(Rome)" title="Category:Arch of Constantine (Rome)">Arch of Constantine</a>, built in 315 AD; Michelangelo's Capitoline Square; the <a href="//commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=Category:Palazzo_dei_Senatori_(Rome)&amp;action=edit&amp;redlink=1" class="new" title="Category:Palazzo dei Senatori (Rome) (page does not exist)">Palazzo dei Senatori</a> and the <a href="//commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Replica_of_the_Equestrian_statue_of_Marcus_Aurelius_(Rome)" title="Category:Replica of the Equestrian statue of Marcus Aurelius (Rome)">equestrian statue of Marcus Aurelius</a>. On the left are the <a href="//commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Apollo_Belvedere" title="Category:Apollo Belvedere">Apollo Belvedere</a>; the triumphal <a href="//commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Arch_of_Septimius_Severus_(Rome)" title="Category:Arch of Septimius Severus (Rome)">arch of Septimus Severus</a> from 203 AD with the <a href="//commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Fontana_del_Quirinale_(Rome)_-_Statues_of_Dioscuri" title="Category:Fontana del Quirinale (Rome) - Statues of Dioscuri">a statue of the Fontana dei Dioscuri</a> above; and <a href="//commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Trajan%27s_Column" title="Category:Trajan's Column">Trajan's Column</a>. The centre is occupied by the <a href="//commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Colosseum" title="Category:Colosseum">Colosseum</a>, opened by Domitian in 80 AD; the <a href="//commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Flaminio_obelisk_(Rome)" title="Category:Flaminio obelisk (Rome)">Flaminio Obelisk</a> in the back, the <a href="//commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Pantheon_(Rome)" title="Category:Pantheon (Rome)">Pantheon</a> and the (destoyed) <a href="//commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Septizonium" title="Category:Septizonium"> Septizodium</a>. In the background stand the triumphal <a href="//commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Arch_of_Titus_(Rome)" title="Category:Arch of Titus (Rome)">arch of Titus</a> on the right, the three columns of the <a href="//commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Temple_of_Castor_and_Pollux,_Rome" title="Category:Temple of Castor and Pollux, Rome">Temple of Castor and Pollux</a> and the <a href="//commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Castel_Sant%27Angelo_(Rome)" title="Category:Castel Sant'Angelo (Rome)">Castel Sant'Angelo</a> and <a href="//commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Ponte_Sant%27Angelo_(Rome)" title="Category:Ponte Sant'Angelo (Rome)"> Ponte Sant'Angelo</a> on the left.</div>
<bdi><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/en:Antoine_Caron" class="extiw" title="w:en:Antoine Caron"><span title="French painter (1521-1599)">Antoine Caron</span></a>
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1566<div style="display: none;">date QS:P571,+1566-00-00T00:00:00Z/9</div>
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