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Belisarius Begging for Alms
Artist
Jacques-Louis David
Year
1781
Medium
oil on canvas
Dimensions
288 cm × 312 cm (113 in × 123 in)
Location
Palais des Beaux-Arts, Lille
Belisarius Begging for Alms (French: Bélisaire demandant l'aumône) is a large-format (288 × 312 cm) history painting in oil on canvas by the French artist Jacques-Louis David.[1] It depicts the Byzantine general Belisarius, who heroically defeated the Vandals in North Africa in AD 533–534 on behalf of Justinian I, and (according to an apocryphal account probably added to his biography in the Middle Ages) was later blinded by the emperor and reduced to begging for alms on the street.[1] David exhibited the work at the Salon of 1781 after returning from Italy and it proved a great success.[2]
It is now in the Palais des Beaux-Arts in Lille.[1]
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