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Pax Romana Art
The Goths Cross the Danube
The Danube frontier · AD 376
741 kr876 kr
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- Printed in the USA. Printed, stretched, and shipped in the USA.
- Free US shipping. Tracking included on every order.
- Canvas, framed or not. Stretched over FSC-certified wooden bars, or set in a wooden frame with a 12 mm gap around it.
- Hanging hardware included. Framed canvas arrives assembled, with the hanger attached.
- Arrives perfect — guaranteed. Damaged or defective? Free reprint or refund.
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Framed canvas
- Canvas (cotton-polyester blend)
- Set in a wooden frame with a 12 mm (0.45″) gap around the canvas
- 42 mm (1.65″) deep
- Arrives assembled and ready to hang: hanger attached, screws or nails included
Canvas
- Canvas (cotton-polyester blend)
- Stretched over FSC-certified wooden bars
- Hanging hardware included
- Sizes: 18x12″ · 24x16″ · 36x24″
- Orientation: Horizontal
- Medium: Canvas
- Style: History painting
- Era: Crisis & Late Empire
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The Goths Cross the DanubeFramed canvas · Black · 18x12″
741 kr
876 krSave 135 kr
The Danube frontier · AD 376
A People Ferried Across
In the 370s the arrival of the Huns on the steppe north of the Black Sea threw the Gothic peoples into turmoil. In 376 a large body of Goths, the Tervingi, led by Fritigern and Alavivus, gathered on the north bank of the Danube and asked the eastern emperor Valens for land inside the empire. Valens agreed, hoping for recruits for his army and farmers for empty land.
Ammianus Marcellinus, a former Roman officer and the chief source, describes the crossing. The river was in flood after heavy rain. The Goths were ferried over day and night, and so many came that Ammianus says trying to count them was hopeless. The Roman commanders in charge, Lupicinus and Maximus, failed to feed them and profited from their hunger; Ammianus claims they bartered dogs for food in exchange for Gothic slaves, some of them the sons of chieftains. Other Goths, never granted entry, crossed anyway.
In 377 the Goths rose in revolt and ravaged Thrace. The following year they destroyed Valens and his army at Adrianople.
The piece
The painting sets us on the Roman side. The wet planks of the landing stage, the watchtower and the line of soldiers fill the right, and the officer's red cloak is the strongest color in the picture. Everything else belongs to the river: the gray water, the crowded boats coming toward us, and a single break in the clouds lighting the long procession from the far shore.
Materia · The materials
Canvas, framed or not.
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Wooden stretcher bars
The canvas is stretched over FSC-certified wooden bars.
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Floating frame
Black, natural wood or dark brown, with a 12 mm (0.45″) gap around the canvas. 42 mm (1.65″) deep.
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Ready for the wall
Framed canvas arrives assembled, hanger attached, screws or nails included. Canvas comes with its hanging hardware.
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