# Antiochus and Stratonice [View the canonical artwork record]() ## Artwork - Artist: [BELLUCCI, Antonio]() - Date: 1651-1700 - Technique: Oil on canvas, 253 x 301 cm ## Commentary Antiochus and Stratonice c. 1700 Oil on canvas, 253 x 301 cm Staatliche Museen, Kassel Antonio Bellucci's work, greatly esteemed during his lifetime, builds on the discoveries of the great Venetian painters of the 16th century \(Titian, Veronese\), this being particularly evident in his use of glowing colour. The story represented in this painting is taken from Plutarch. Antiochus \(324-261 BC\), son of Seleucus I, King of Syria, had fallen ill of a mysterious disease. Erasistratos, his father's personal physician, discovered the cause only when he felt his patient's heartbeat become violent and irregular on the queen's entering the room; Antiochos had fallen hopelessly in love with his young stepmother Stratonice. Seleukos I then magnanimously gave up his wife, offering her to his son as his bride. ## Related artworks - [Antiochus and Stratonice \(detail\)]() - [Danaë]() - [Hercules in the Palace of Omphale]() - [Portrait of a Procurator]() - [Rebecca at the Well \(detail\)]() - [Rebecca at the Well]() - [Samson and Delilah]() ## Attribution [Web Gallery of Art]()