# The Massacres of the Triumvirate

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## Artwork

- Artist: [CARON, Antoine](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/caron-antoine-rc0641c7691aba7>)
- Date: 1551-1600
- Technique: Oil on canvas, 116 x 195 cm

## Commentary

In an imaginary landscape, Caron depicts the massacres perpetrated during the Roman Civil Wars in 43 B.C. by the triumvirs, Marc Antony, Octavian \(Augustus\), and Lepidus. The painting might allude to the massacres of which the Protestants were victims after 1561.

## Related artworks

- [Augustus and the Sibyl](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/caron-antoine-rc0641c7691aba7/augustus-and-the-sibyl-r6baf5dd16eaa09>)
- [Dionysius the Areopagite Converting the Pagan Philosophers](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/caron-antoine-rc0641c7691aba7/dionysius-the-areopagite-converting-the-pagan-philosophers-r4ca6cd8e7b5bf2>)
- [Merry-go-round with Elephant](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/caron-antoine-rc0641c7691aba7/merry-go-round-with-elephant-r527f6329806015>)
- [The Arrest and Execution of Sir Thomas More in 1535](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/caron-antoine-rc0641c7691aba7/the-arrest-and-execution-of-sir-thomas-more-in-1535-r60d3adb730269e>)
- [The Triumph of Winter](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/caron-antoine-rc0641c7691aba7/the-triumph-of-winter-rd840fcede386f6>)

## Attribution

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