Hersilia, daughter of the Sabine leader Titus Tatius and wife of Rome's founder Romulus, flings herself between the two men with arms spread, as other women thrust their babies into the battle. Jacques-Louis David began planning it in prison in 1795, and it was read as a plea for reconciliation after the Terror. The warriors fight nude, like Greek statues.
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Behind the battle rises the Tarpeian Rock, from which Roman traitors were thrown, a pointed reminder of civil strife.
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