Cicero in 17th, 18th, and 19th Century Painting: A Witness to the Survival of His Works and Those of Sallust, Plutarch, and Cassius Dio

  • Cristina Martín Puente, CMP Universidad Complutense de Madrid

Abstract

Cicero has had a great influence on writers and intellectuals of all periods. Because of his enormous importance, he also has been portrayed in sculpture, painting, manuscripts and other artistic disciplines. His imprint is enormous among Enlightenment writers and thinkers, as an intellectual and political model, and it is present in philosophical, dramatic, and other works. In this paper, his appearance in pictures of large format is developed, between the 17th and 19th centuries, which give indications of the reception of the Tusculan Disputations, De legibus, In Verres, Catilinarians, and Pro Ligario, and, as well, of the Catilinarian Conspiracy of Sallust, of the Life of Cicero of Plutarch, and of the Roman History of Cassius Dio.

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Author Biography

Cristina Martín Puente, CMP, Universidad Complutense de Madrid

La Dra. Cristina Martín Puente (cmartin@filol.ucm.es), Profesora Titular de Filología Latina de la Universidad Complutense de Madrid, se licenció en Filología Clásica en 1992 y se doctoró en Filología Latina en la misma universidad de 1998. Tuvo una beca predoctoral del Ministerio de Educación de España de 1993 a 1996 y de La Caixa y DAAD en Ludwig-Maximiliam Universität y Thesaurus Lingua Latinae en 1997. Disfrutó de una beca postdoctoral en el C.S.I.C. entre 1998 y 1999. Desde 2000 es profesora en la Universidad Complutense. Su investigación abarca distintos aspectos de la Filología Clásica: la lingüística latina (sintaxis y léxico), la literatura latina, la recepción de las literaturas clásicas en el teatro, el cine, la Historia del Arte, etc. Concretamente dentro de este ámbito lleva años estudiando los retratos de Ovidio, Séneca y Cicerón, entre otros autores, en escultura, pintura, manuscritos, etc.

Published
2021-06-30
How to Cite
Martín Puente, C. (2021). Cicero in 17th, 18th, and 19th Century Painting: A Witness to the Survival of His Works and Those of Sallust, Plutarch, and Cassius Dio. Ciceroniana On Line, 5(1), 121-157. https://doi.org/10.13135/2532-5353/5949