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The Trial of Mucius Scaevola

1727-1728
Vittorio Maria Bigari (Italian, 1692–1776)
Bigari collaborated on many fresco decorations in towns around Bologna. This study for a wall painting in the main salon of a palace in Faenza, near Bologna, shows a scene from Livy's Early History of Rome in which a young Roman aristocrat, Mucius Scaevola, confronts the invading Etruscans and thrusts his right hand into the fire to demonstrate his fearlessness.

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