Women_Gladiators_(Ribera)

<i>Women Gladiators</i> (Ribera)

Women Gladiators (Ribera)

1636 painting by Jusepe de Ribera

Women Gladiators (Spanish: Combate de Mujeres) is a painting by Jusepe de Ribera made in oil on canvas. It is conserved in the Museo del Prado, Madrid.[1]

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Description

The painting, dated and signed, was made in Naples in 1636, as part of a series of over thirty pictures on the history of Rome commissioned to Giovanni Lanfranco, Domenichino, Ribera himself, and other artists.

Analysis

The painting depicts a legendary episode occurred at Naples in 1552. Two women, Isabella of Carazzi and Diambra of Pottinella, in the presence of the Marquis of the Vast dispute in a duel for the love of a man called Fabio Zeresola. The subject matter of the painting has also been held to be an allegory of the fight between Vice and Virtue.

References

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    "Women Gladiators - the Collection - Museo Nacional del Prado".
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