Servilie et Soranus

[ricardienne]

Pursuant to this post, here's a random 18th century French historical painting of Servilia and her father before Nero's tribunal.

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[ricardienne]

I KNOW. It's also not as though we haven't always had lots and lots of images of Nero in all of his despotic glory (double chins and mullet and all):



Or, you know, this ginormous 19th century painting of Nero getting ready to burn some Christians alive:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Siemiradski_Fackeln.jpg (a giant gold litter and a pet tiger: this year's tyrannical must haves!)

[achyvi]

HARUMPH. SOME PEOPLE. You can't just ignore artistic tropes like that!