# The Continence of Scipio

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## Artwork

- Artist: [BECCAFUMI, Domenico](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/beccafumi-domenico-r95023343e20f15>)
- Date: 1501-1550
- Technique: Fresco

## Commentary

The most important of the thematic cycle is the historical one, to which the two ceiling paintings also belong. Each of these paintings has an explanatory inscription which identifies the event depicted and also makes it clear that they are moral examples. The source for these scenes is a compendium of Valerius Maximus, &#34;Factorum and dictorum memorabilium libri.&#34; The picture shows one of the two central pictures on the ceiling depicting The Continence of Scipio.

## Related artworks

- [Birth of the Virgin](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/beccafumi-domenico-r95023343e20f15/birth-of-the-virgin-r437bb2603be443>)
- [Fall of the Rebel Angels](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/beccafumi-domenico-r95023343e20f15/fall-of-the-rebel-angels-r87e74ec391e9a5>)
- [Fall of the Rebel Angels](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/beccafumi-domenico-r95023343e20f15/fall-of-the-rebel-angels-rd913e2b9404f88>)
- [Head of a Youth Seen in Profile](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/beccafumi-domenico-r95023343e20f15/head-of-a-youth-seen-in-profile-r72e9e74f77eaaa>)
- [Hermathena](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/beccafumi-domenico-r95023343e20f15/hermathena-r08db23078351e5>)
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- [Madonna with the Infant Christ and St John the Baptist](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/beccafumi-domenico-r95023343e20f15/madonna-with-the-infant-christ-and-st-john-the-baptist-rdc6f580a4396fb>)
- [Moses and the Golden Calf](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/beccafumi-domenico-r95023343e20f15/moses-and-the-golden-calf-rdedcf7dd4453e2>)
- [Mystical Marriage of St Catherine](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/beccafumi-domenico-r95023343e20f15/mystical-marriage-of-st-catherine-rcb8f09891e20ac>)
- [Penelope](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/beccafumi-domenico-r95023343e20f15/penelope-r7dfda1043b9970>)
- [Scipio Appeals to the Honour of his Soldiers](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/beccafumi-domenico-r95023343e20f15/scipio-appeals-to-the-honour-of-his-soldiers-r1ec121b33f682c>)
- [St Jerome](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/beccafumi-domenico-r95023343e20f15/st-jerome-r0f07fdf3059855>)

## Attribution

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