# Spartacus

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## Artwork

- Artist: [VELA, Vincenzo](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/vela-vincenzo-r92a65ba45936a9>)
- Date: 1851-1900
- Technique: Plaster

## Commentary

In Italy, the Swiss-Italian sculptor Vincenzo Vela showed the first signs of the new movement &#39;verismo&#39; \(realism\) in his striking figure of Spartacus. Here, in a veiled form, modern events are referred to, for Vela&#39;s image of the Thracian prince who led the revolt of the slaves in republican Rome echoed the emerging struggle of the north Italians against the rule of Austria.

## Related artworks

- [Last Days of Napoleon](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/vela-vincenzo-r92a65ba45936a9/last-days-of-napoleon-ra012ed01460b70>)
- [Victims of Work](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/vela-vincenzo-r92a65ba45936a9/victims-of-work-r9f1958f58a2f73>)

## Attribution

[Web Gallery of Art](<https://beta.wga.hu/pages/about>)