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Circle of Frans Francken

Bible Story, c. 17th C.

Oil on Canvas

53 x 117.2 cm

Private Collection

The painting made by the circle of the Flemish painter Frans Francken the Younger, who belonged to the famous painter family Francken, shows presumably the Bible story of Jacob and Esau – with view to an idyllic landscape and animals at the left side of the horizontal format. More

Frans Francken the Younger (Antwerp, 1581 – Antwerp, 6 May 1642) was a Flemish painter and the best-known member of the large Francken family of artists. He played an important role in the development of Flemish art in the first half of the 17th century through his innovations in genre painting and introduction of new subject matter. Francken was born in Antwerp where he trained with his father Frans Francken the Elder. He may also have trained with his uncle Hieronymus Francken I in Paris, together with his brother Hieronymus Francken II. He became a master in the Antwerp Guild of Saint Luke in 1605 and was deacon of the Guild in 1616. More

Workshop of Paolo Veronese

Rebecca at the Well, 16th/17th C

Oil on Canvas

129.5 x 151.5 cm

Private Collection

A depiction of the biblical scene presenting Rebecca and Abraham's servant Eliezer at the well. He offers her a presents to make her become the wife of Abraham's son Issac (1st book of Moses, 24). The artists are presumably the sons of Paolo Veronese They painted the protagonists brighter than the others figures. The painting, which has been family-owned since the 18th century, was in the past presented in Palazzo Sarcinelli in Conegliano.

Paolo Caliari, known as Paolo Veronese (1528 – 19 April 1588) was an Italian Renaissance painter based in Venice, most famous for large history paintings of both religious and mythological subjects, such as The Wedding at Cana and The Feast in the House of Levi. With Titian, who was at least a generation older, and Tintoretto, ten years older, he was one o

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The Hellenistic West

Although the Hellenistic period has become increasingly popular in research and teaching in recent years, the western Mediterranean is rarely considered part of the ‘Hellenistic world’; instead the cities, peoples and kingdoms of the West are usually only discussed insofar as they relate to Rome. This book contends that the rift between the ‘Greek East’ and the ‘Roman West’ is more a product of the traditional separation of Roman and Greek history than a reflection of the Hellenistic-period Mediterranean, which was a strongly interconnected cultural and economic zone, with the rising Roman Republic just one among many powers in the region, East and West. The contributors argue for a dynamic reading of the economy, politics and history of the central and western Mediterranean beyond Rome, and in doing so problematise the concepts of ‘East’, ‘West’ and ‘Hellenistic’ itself.

jonathan r. w. prag is University Lecturer in Ancient History at the University of Oxford and Fellow and Tutor of Merton College, Oxford. He has published articles on ancient Sicily, Punic identity, Greek and Roman epigraphy and Roman Republican history, with a particular interest in Roman Republican imperialism. He has edited volumes on Cicero and Petronius and is currently writing a monograph on the use of non-Italian soldiers by the Roman Republican army, collaborating on a commentary on Cicero’s Verrines and working on a new digital corpus of Sicilian inscriptions.

josephine crawley quinn is University Lecturer in Ancient History at the University of Oxford and Fellow and Tutor of Worcester College, Oxford. She has published articles on a range of topics in Mediterranean history and archaeology, with particular interests in ancient North Africa and the Phoenicians. She has also co-edited a volume of essays on the Punic Mediterranean with Nicholas Vella, se