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AGRIPPA'S DAUGHTER BOOK COVER PAINTING by RICHARD CLIFTON DEY

Artist: Richard Clifton Dey (All)

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AGRIPPA'S DAUGHTER BOOK COVER PAINTING by RICHARD CLIFTON DEY Comic Art

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Title:	AGRIPPA'S DAUGHTER BOOK COVER PAINTING by RICHARD CLIFTON DEY
Artist:	Richard Clifton Dey (All)
Media Type:	Mixed Media
Art Type:	Interior Page
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Views:	1,770
Likes on CAF:	1 2
Comments:	1
Added to Site:	7/11/2016
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So this cover is a pretty big one for me to have found since I also have the Spartacus cover too. The same as Spartacus, it's a Mayflower Granada edition with the cover art painted by Richard Clifton Dey. For people who do not know who Agrippa's daughter was.

Her name was Berenice of Cilicia, also known as Julia Berenice (28 AD – after 81)and she was a Jewish client queen of the Roman Empire during the second half of the 1st century. She was the daughter of King Herod Agrippa I and a sister of King Herod Agrippa II which made her a member of the Herodian Dynasty that ruled the Roman province of Judaea between 39 BC and 92 AD.

"What little is known about her life and background comes mostly from the early historian Flavius Josephus, who detailed a history of the Jewish people and wrote an account of the Jewish Rebellion of 67. Suetonius, Tacitus, Dio Cassius, Aurelius Victor and Juvenal, also tell about her. She is also mentioned in the Acts of the Apostles (26:30). However, it is for her tumultuous love life that she is primarily known from the Renaissance. Her reputation was based on the bias of the Romans to the Eastern princesses, like Cleopatra or later Zenobia. After a number of failed marriages throughout the 40s, she spent much of the remainder of her life at the court of her brother Herod Agrippa II, amidst rumors the two were carrying on an incestuous relationship. During the First Jewish-Roman War, she began a love affair with the future emperor Titus Flavius Vespasianus. However, her unpopularity among the Romans compelled Titus to dismiss her on his accession as emperor in 79. When he died two years later, she disappeared from the historical record."

I framed and matted this with a copy of the cover for reference. and it's in a 16 X 20 frame matching the Spartacus. Unfortunately Richard passed away several years ago but hopefully he's happy these two paintings are together. Either way, I am.

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George Hagenauer
Member Since 2005

Posted on 12/17/2016

Really nice Clifton Dey more complex than much of his work

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