The Abduction of the Sabine Women – painted for Cardinal Luigi Omodei (1637-1638) Nicolas Poussin 1594-1665 France French ( The Rape of the Sabine Women was an incident in Roman mythology in which the men of Rome committed a mass abduction of young women from the other cities in the region. )

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