The apotheosis of Romulus, legendary founder and first king of Rome, 716 BC. Romulus disappears into a whirlwind while reviewing troops on the Campus Martius, and is raised up by Mars in front of Jupiter and Juno on a cloud. Apotheose de Romulus. Copperplate engraving by János Blaschke 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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