# The Continence of Scipio Africanus [View the canonical artwork record]() ## Artwork - Artist: [BECCAFUMI, Domenico]() - Date: 1501-1550 - Technique: Oil on panel, 68 x 140 cm ## Commentary The Continence of Scipio Africanus c. 1525 Oil on panel, 68 x 140 cm Museo Nazionale di Palazzo Mansi, Lucca This painting was probably intended for a private palace. It shows an event in the Second Punic War: after Scipio Africanus's capture of Carthago Nova, the exceptionally beautiful virgin betrothed to the Celtiberian prince Allucius, fell into the hands of the Romans. Scipio allowed her to return untouched to her family. The panel depicts the moment when the young general announces her release to the prince kneeling before him, and in return asks simply that Allucius become a friend of Rome. ## Related artworks - [Birth of the Virgin]() - [Fall of the Rebel Angels]() - [Fall of the Rebel Angels]() - [Head of a Youth Seen in Profile]() - [Hermathena]() - [Judgment of Zaleukos]() - [Madonna with the Infant Christ and St John the Baptist]() - [Moses and the Golden Calf]() - [Mystical Marriage of St Catherine]() - [Penelope]() - [Scipio Appeals to the Honour of his Soldiers]() - [St Jerome]() ## Attribution [Web Gallery of Art]()