The deaths of Demosthenes and Themistocles, Cleopatra’s experimental toxicology, and Tristan and Isolde – was it poison or a love potion?
Boisselier
Founded around 1666, the Prix de Rome was an annual contest for narrative painting. First prize was study at the French Academy in Rome.
One of the great orators of Greece, he fled into exile when found guilty of accepting a bribe, and later took poison before he could be arrested. Includes an unusual painting by Turner.
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