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El sueño de Calpurnia

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El sueño de Calpurnia
ArtistLuis Álvarez Catalá
Year1861
LocationMuseo del Prado

El sueño de Calpurnia (Calpurnia's Dream, also called Calpurnia, the wife of Julius Caesar)[1] is a 1861 painting by Luis Álvarez Catalá which depicts the nightmare Calpurnia had the night before the death of her husband Julius Caesar. The work won Álvarez a Gold Medal at the first National Exposition of Florence and a second place at the National Exhibition of Fine Arts of Spain in 1862.[2]

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  1. ^ Temple, Alfred George (1908). Modern Spanish painting: being a review of some of the chief painters and paintings of the Spanish school since the time of Goya. University of Wisconsin - Madison: A. Fairbairns & company. p. 21.
  2. ^ "Álvarez Catalá, Luis". Museo del Prado.