Pax Romana Art

Cato, Brutus and Caesar

Rome · 44 BC

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Framed print

  • 12-color fine art printing with fade-resistant pigment inks
  • Smooth matte fine art paper, 200 gsm
  • Pine wood frame, FSC-certified paper and wood
  • Shatterproof plexiglass
  • Arrives framed and ready to hang, hanging kit included

Hanging print

  • 12-color fine art printing with fade-resistant pigment inks
  • Smooth matte fine art paper, 200 gsm
  • Pine wood frame, FSC-certified paper and wood
  • Shatterproof plexiglass
  • Arrives framed and ready to hang, hanging kit included
  • Sizes: 18x12″ · 24x16″ · 36x24″
  • Orientation: Horizontal
  • Medium: Fine art paper
  • Style: Family tree
  • Era: Late Republic
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Cato, Brutus and Caesar: an illustration of the family tree linking Cato the Younger, Brutus and Julius Caesar through Servilia, gold and ivory on black
Cato, Brutus and Caesar44 BC
Rome · 44 BC

The family behind the Ides

Livia, the mother of Servilia and Cato, married twice. By her first husband, Quintus Servilius Caepio, she had Servilia; by her second, Marcus Porcius Cato, she had Cato the Younger. So Cato was the uncle of Servilia's son, Marcus Junius Brutus. Servilia's first husband, Brutus's father, was killed on Pompey's orders in 77 BC.

Suetonius says Caesar loved Servilia above all other women. Plutarch repeats talk that Brutus was Caesar's son, which most historians doubt, and the plate does not draw it as a line. Brutus sided with Pompey in the civil war and was pardoned by Caesar in 48 BC. Cato, a Stoic, took his own life at Utica in 46 BC rather than accept Caesar's pardon. A year later Brutus married Cato's daughter Porcia, widow of Bibulus. On 15 March 44 BC Caesar was stabbed to death at a meeting of the Senate, with Brutus and his brother-in-law Cassius among the conspirators. Porcia died in 43 or 42 BC, by her own hand, say most ancient writers.

The piece

The plate is set in gold and ivory on black, with three engraved medallion portraits of Cato, Brutus and Caesar. The eye goes first to Servilia at the center, where the lines meet, then follows the dotted line across to Caesar. Beneath the tree, Tacitus recalls the funeral of Junia Tertia in AD 22, when the images of twenty great families were carried, and Cassius and Brutus outshone them all because their likenesses were not to be seen.

Materia · The materials

Fine art paper, framed or hung.

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Pine frame

Black, dark wood or natural wood, FSC-certified. Framed prints arrive framed and ready to hang, hanging kit included.

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Fine art paper

Framed prints: 200 gsm smooth matte paper, printed in 12 colors with fade-resistant pigment inks.

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Shatterproof plexiglass

Protects the print in transit and on the wall.

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Magnetic wooden hanger

Posters: 250 gsm museum-quality matte paper between pine hangers in black or dark wood. The magnets hold the print, so you can swap it any time.

Size guide

Find the right size

This piece, to scale, above an 84-inch sofa. Pick a size, or a format and frame above, and the wall follows.

Cato, Brutus and Caesar: an illustration of the family tree linking Cato the Younger, Brutus and Julius Caesar through Servilia, gold and ivory on black
Sofa · 84″ / 213 cm

Which size?

Sizes are the artwork's. Frames and hangers add a little around the edge.

Above a sofa or bed, art looks best at about two-thirds of the furniture's width, hung 8 to 10 inches above it.