I've come perversely to enjoy this kind of uniquely – it seems to me – bombastic 19th century type of historicizing art*, paintings which in German we disrespectfully call Schinken. There is no real English equivalent for that term, I think.
*Dissenting views are invited …
Thusnelda at the Triumphal Entry of Germanicus into Rome
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In the center is a proud Thusnelda with her small son Thumelicus walking among the prisoners. Above right lounges a decadent Tiberius, with the traitor Segestes close by. Germanicus is a dim figure way in the back left (adapted from a description by Reinhard Wolters). The painting, begun in 1869, was the contribution by the German Reich to the 1873 World's Fair in Vienna. It's in the Pinakothek in Munich. A later copy, ca. 1875, is at the Met Museum in New York.
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