The Marriage of Constantine (tapestry) - > Rubens
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Description
This is the marriage of Constantine to Fausta, daughter of the Emperor Maximian, and Constantine's Christian sister Constantia to the pagan Licinius.The two marriages actually took place six years apart. Rubens thus draws a parallel with the double marriage of Louis XIII to Anne of Austria and of Louis XIII's sister Isabelle de Bourbon to the future Philip IV of Spain. Sources: Vita Constantini by Eusebius of Caesarea and Annales ecclesiastici by Cardinal Baronio.
2. Designed in 1622, woven in 1623-1625.
Description under the engraving by Godefroy: "Before an altar of antique form and in the temple of Jupiter and Juno, whose statues are seen, Constantine gives his hand as a sign of alliance, to Fausta, who is granted to him as a wife by the emperor Maximian, father of this princess. "
3. Other tapestries at the Mobilier national, Paris, GMTT 40/3; 43/1.
Technical Data
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