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| Keywords: Nicolas Poussin - La Mort de Germanicus.jpg Artwork Creator Nicolas Poussin The Death of Germanicus 1627 oil canvas cm 147 96 198 12 Minneapolis Institute of Arts Gallery 313 object history credit line Collection Minneapolis Institute of Arts; The William Hood Dunwoody Fund The subject is drawn from The Annals of Tacitus Books II LXXI LXXII <br/>Germanicus 15 B C A D 19 the son of Nero Claudius Drusus was a famous and extremely popular Roman general who carried out several successful military campaigns in Germany He was named commander of the eight legions of the Rhine by his uncle Tiberius who was then Emperor Recalled to Rome in A D 16 his warm reception by the populace inflamed the jealousy and fear of Tiberius who immediately sent him to the East to remove him from the public eye In the meantime Tiberius also made Piso an ambitious member of the Roman nobility the governor of Syria and ordered him to spy on Germanicus' movements When Germanicus unexpectedly died while in Syria Piso and his wife Plancina were accused of poisoning him supposedly at Tiberius' instigation Although the prosecution was unable to prove that Germanicus had in fact been poisoned Piso's subsequent suicide was construed as a cover-up This gave further credence to the widespread suspicion that Tiberius or even his mother Livia was behind the murder <ref>http //www artsconnected org/resource/2606/1/the-death-of-germanicus The Minneapolis Institute of Arts</ref> <small> reflist </small> accession number 58 28 http //www artsconnected org/resource/2606/1/the-death-of-germanicus ArtsConnectEd Project The Minneapolis Institute of Arts and Walker Art Center PD-Art-100 La Mort de Germanicus par Nicolas Poussin | ||||
