Sabine Women

menfolk absent, Romans carry off women for wives. [Rom. Hist.: Brewer Dictionary, 948; Flem. Art: Rubens, “Rape of the Sabine Women”]

See: Abduction

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You are the direct descendant of those Romans who carried off the Sabine women. Nay!

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Imprisoned for a short while afterwards, his subjects turned once more to classic historical subjects, such as The Sabine Women, and bourgeois portraiture.

Art as Revolutionary Propaganda in David's The Death of Marat

In the past twenty years, Jacques-Louis David's Sabine Women has been the subject of renewed attention in art historical literature.

Architecture and Memory in Jacques-Louis David's Sabine Women

According to the saga, the men of Rome needed wives to bear children and perpetuate their civilization; when the men of the neighboring Sabine tribe refused to let their daughters marry the Romans, the Romans abducted Sabine women to become their wives.

Tarpeia: Workings of a Roman Myth

Today's nudes are nothing like the Sabine women rising up from an 800-year sleep of chiseled outrage.

Today's Nudes

Seeing the brothers as a bunch of gauche teens and young men changes the feel of the story (a bunch of strapping Oregon rowdies kidnapping half-a-dozen would-be wives) from creepy - they're inspired by the story of the Sabine women for goodness sake - into something akin to clueless and youthful exuberance.

Review; SEVEN BRIDES FOR SEVEN BROTHERS Empire

The Sabine women managed to ensure that peace was established between the Romans and the Sabine and that their children became Roman citizens.

The politics of rape: Traces of radical feminism in Disgrace by J. M. Coetzee

Like "The Raft of the Medusa" by Gericault or "The Sabine Women" by Jacques Louis David, these paintings depict gruesome moments in time by those who survived and wish for others to see those who have died so they can live.

For Tony Kaldas, 'art is not an option, it's a right'

Clark provides a deep reading of David's The Intervention of the Sabine Women, positioning it within eighteenth-century discourses about the State.

Peter De Bolla, Nigel Leask and David Simpson (eds), Land, Nation, and Culture, 1740-1840: Thinking the Republic of Taste

In contrast, David's Intervention of the Sabine Women (Fig.

Nineteenth-century French women, the home, and the colonial vision: Les Sauvages de la Mer Pacifique wallpaper

But the lads are anxious to have wives of their own, so Adam, inspired by reading about the Roman capture of Sabine women, develops a solution to their loneliness - kidnap the women they want.

Wife catchers take to the stage in classical musical

During the celebrations, the young Romans seized the Sabine women and drove off the men.