Vestal Virgin

Roman Fresco from Pompeii - House of the Vestals (ca. 1st Century BC)

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Willem Doudijns - Vestal Virgin with Burning Incense (1670s)

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Alessandro Marchesini - Dedication of a New Vestal Virgin (1710)

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Jean Raoux (1720s)

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Anonymous - Anne Charlotte as Vestal Virgin (1739)

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Jean-Marc Nattier - Woman Dressed as Vestal Virgin (1759)

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Follower of Jean-Marc Nattier - Sophie de France as Vestal Virgin

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Francois Hubert Drouais (1767)

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Jacques-Louis David (ca. 1780)

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Angelica Kauffmann (ca. 1782)

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Circle of Angelica Kauffmann (ca. 1785)

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Andrey Ivanov - Yekaterina Ivanova as Vestal Virgin (1800)

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Pietro Saja - Vestal Virgin Condemned to Death (ca. 1800)

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Circle of Johann Baptist Lampi (undated)

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Jean-Basptiste Peyvatin - Ordeal of a Vestal Virgin (1800s)

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Nikolay Ge (1858)

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Jean-Léon Gérôme - Pollice Verso or Thumbs Down (1872)

(detail of Vestal Virgins on the stand of a Roman Amphiteatre)

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Arnold Böcklin (1874)

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Louis-Hector Leroux - Inauguration of a Vestal Virgin (ca. 1875)

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Edward John Poynter - Vestal Portrait of Miss Violet Lindsay (1880)

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Frederic Leighton (1880)

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Carl-Friedrich Deckler (1880s)

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José Rico Cejudo (ca. 1890)

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Edward Burne-Jones (1896)

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Jules-Joseph Lefebvre (1902)

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George Lawrence Bulleid (1904)

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Julius Kronberg (1918)

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René Magritte - Torturing of the Vestal Virgin (1927)

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Paul Delvaux (1972)

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Vestal Virgin

'Priestess of Vesta, Goddess of the Hearth'

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Legendary Vestals

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Rhea Silvia

'mythical mother of Rome's founders, Romulus and Remus'

Heinrich Aldegrever (1525-1550)

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Francesco Melzi (1530s)

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Peter Paul Rubens (ca. 1618) - Mars and Rhea Silvia

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Jacques Blanchard (ca. 1630)

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Engraving by C. Fantetti after Annibale Carracci (undated)

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Tarpeia

'betrayer of Rome to the Sabines who was crushed to death'

Anonymous Engraving (undated)

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Il Sodoma (1500s)

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Tuccia

'who proved her virtue by carrying water in a sieve'

Andrea Mantegna (1490)

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Giulio Antonio de Bonasone (ca. 1550)

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Giovanni Battista Moroni (ca. 1560)

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Pieter Furnius (1573)

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Quentin Metsys the Younger - Elizabeth I as Tuccia (ca. 1583)

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Engraving after Joshua Reynolds (undated)

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Domenico Corvi (ca. 1775)

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Louis-Hector Leroux (1874)

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