Marcus Junius Brutus, Roman politician and assassin

Marcus Junius Brutus, Roman politician, orator, and the most famous of the assassins of Julius Caesar, c. 85 - 42 BC. Carnelian gem depicting him with hasta (spear), scutum (shield), arcus (bow), lorica musculata (breastplate) and fasces, as a defender of the freedom of the Roman Republic. Marco Giunio Bruto. Copperplate engraving by Etienne Picart after Giovanni Angelo Canini from Iconografia, cioe disegni d'imagini de famosissimi monarchi, regi, filososi, poeti ed oratori dell Antichita, Drawings of images of famous monarchs, kings, philosophers, poets and orators of Antiquity, Ignatio de'Lazari, Rome, 1699

1699 17th Century Arcus Assassin Breastplate Carnelian Classical Mythology Defender Etienne Picart Fasces Filososi Giovanni Angelo Canini Greek Myth Hasta Iconografia Ignatio Delazari Julius Caesar Orator Poeti Ed Oratori Dell Antichita Regi Roman Myth Roman Republic Scutum

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