Queen Artemisia (4th century B.C.) of Halicarnassus in Asia Minor was said by ancient authors to have mourned her husband, Mausolus, by building the Mausoleum, one of the Seven Wonders of the World. She then drank his ashes mixed with wine to become his living tomb and an example of virtue (exemplum virtutis). Here the holders of the queen of different ages and status marvel at her miraculous act, in accordance with the rules drawn up for humanist history painting by the theorist Leon Battista Alberti in his treatise De pictura (1435), where this noble genre was defined.
Gerard Hermansz. van Honthorst (Utrecht, the Netherlands, 4 November 1592 - 27 April 1656) was a Dutch painter, one of Caravaggio's most gifted followers. He is counted among the Utrecht Caravaggists.
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