Funeral rites and apotheosis of Roman general Gaius Julius Caesar, 44 BC. Caesar's body is lifted onto a bed in front of the Temple of Concordia Sacra in Rome and a shrine to Venus. Pompe funebre et apotheose de Cesar. Copperplate engraving by Paul Joh. Weindl after a design by Gabriel de St. Aubin from Professor Joseph Rudolf Zappe’s Gemalde aus der romischen Geschichte, Pictures of Roman History, Joseph Schalbacher, Vienna, 1800. German edition of Abbe Claude Francois Xavier Millot’s Abrege de l’Histoire Romaine.

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