艺术流派
Unknown Movement
创作媒介
Unknown Medium
作品信息
艺术家
Jacques-Louis David
创作年代
1781
地点
Paris, France
作品描述
Belisarius Begging for Alms is a large-format history painting in oil on canvas by the French artist Jacques-Louis David. It depicts the Byzantine general Belisarius, who heroically defeated the Vandals in North Africa in AD 533–534 on behalf of Justinian I, and was later blinded by the emperor and reduced to begging for alms on the street. David exhibited the work at the Salon of 1781 after returning from Italy and it proved a great success.