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Artist	Beccafumi, Domenico
Title	Deutsch: Allegorischer Freskenzyklus (Politische Tugenden) aus dem Palazzo Pubblico in Siena, Szene: Die Enthauptung des Spurius Cassius. English: One of the scenes of Roman Justice frescoed on the ceiling of the Sala del Concistoro of the Palazzo Pubblico in Siena by Domenico Beccafumi between 1529-1535. Pliny the Elder, Book 34, chapter 15: "I find that the first image cast in bronze in Rome was that of Ceres; it was paid for out of the property of Spurius Cassius, who was executed by his own father when he tried to make himself king."
Year	1532-1535
Technique	Deutsch: Fresko
Current location	Palazzo Pubblico.	Siena.
Source	The Yorck Project: 10.000 Meisterwerke der Malerei. DVD-ROM, 2002. ISBN 3936122202. Distributed by DIRECTMEDIA Publishing GmbH.
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Other versions	Image:Spurius Cassius Vecillinus.jpg

Creator/Artist
Name	Beccafumi, Domenico
Alternative names	Deutsch: eigentlich: Domenico di Pace
Date of birth/death	1484	1551
Location of birth/death	Deutsch: bei Siena	Deutsch: Siena
Work location	Deutsch: Siena, Pisa

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