02 Works, The Art of War, Sebastiano Ricci's Camillus Rescuing Rome from Brennus and Paul Joseph Jamin's Spoils of the Battle, with footnotes

Sebastiano Ricci,1659-1734

Camillus Rescuing Rome from Brennus, ca. between 1716 and 1720

Oil on canvas

17 1/8 × 23 1/8 inches (43.5 × 58.7 cm)

Detroit Institute of Arts

Sebastiano Ricci (1 August 1659 – 15 May 1734) was one of the principal figures in the revival of Venetian painting in the 1700s. Ricci's dramatic and sumptuous work appealed to ecclesiastical and royal patrons across Europe. His painting was indebted both to Paolo Veronese and other Italian painters of the 1500s and looked ahead to the next generation of Venetian artists including Giambattista Tiepolo and Antonio Guardi. 

Ricci began his training in Venice but following a charge of attempted murder, he departed for Bologna in 1681. Over the next fifteen years, Ricci was almost constantly on the move and is known to have worked in Parma, Rome, and Milan. His brushes with the law persisted but Ricci established his career as a decorative painter producing frescos and paintings for churches and palaces. 

Ricci finally returned to Venice in 1696 and received many commissions in the region. He also accepted important commissions in Vienna and Florence and in 1711 traveled to England with his nephew Marco, also an established painter. The luminous, decorative works Ricci produced for the British aristocracy secured his international reputation. In his later years, he increasingly collaborated with his nephew, creating works across Europe until shortly before his death in 1734. More on Sebastiano Ricci

In the Battle of the Allia, Brennus defeated the Romans and entered Rome itself. He captured the entire city of Rome except for the Capitoline Hill, which was successfully held against them. According to legend Marcus Manlius Capitolinus was alerted to the Gallic attack by the sacred geese of Juno. However, seeing their city devastated, the Romans attempted to buy their salvation from Brennus. The Romans agreed to pay one thousand pounds weight of gold. According to Livy, during a dispute over the weights used to measure the gold, Brennus threw his sword onto the scales and uttered the famous words "Vae victis!", which translates to "woe to the conquered!". More on The Battle of the Allia

Paul Joseph Jamin  (1853–1903)

Brennus and His Share of the Spoils", also known as: "Spoils of the Battle", c. 1893

Oil on canvas

162 × 118 cm (63.7 × 46.4 in)

Private collection

Paul Joseph Jamin (9 February 1853 – 10 July 1903) was a French painter of the Academic Classicism school.

Jamin was born in Paris in 1853. He was a student of Gustave Boulanger.

His paintings were shown frequently at the Salon throughout the last quarter of the nineteenth century. One of his best-known paintings is Le Brenn et sa part de butin (1893), which depicts the Gaulish chieftain Brennus viewing his captives after the looting of Rome. Above painting

Jamin died in Paris on 10 July 1903. More on Paul Joseph Jamin

The argument about the weights had so delayed matters that the exiled dictator Marcus Furius Camillus had extra time to muster an army, return to Rome and expel the Gauls, saving both the city and the treasury, and telling Brennus, "not by gold, but by iron, is the nation to be recovered".The Gauls were first ejected from the city, then utterly annihilated in a regular engagement eight miles outside of town on the road to Gabii. Camillus was hailed by his troops as another Romulus, father of his country 'Pater Patriae' and second founder of Rome. More on Camillus Rescuing Rome from Brennus

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