{"id":7840,"date":"2024-11-28T09:05:30","date_gmt":"2024-11-28T08:05:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.pinacotecafaenza.it\/?post_type=opera&#038;p=7840"},"modified":"2026-03-06T15:58:04","modified_gmt":"2026-03-06T14:58:04","slug":"caecilia-metella","status":"publish","type":"opera","link":"https:\/\/www.pinacotecafaenza.it\/en\/opera\/caecilia-metella\/","title":{"rendered":"Caecilia Metella"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The painting is paired with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pinacotecafaenza.it\/en\/opera\/rhea-silvia\/\">Rhea Silvia<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pinacotecafaenza.it\/en\/opera\/aemilia-the-vestal-virgin\/\">Aemilia the Vestal Virgin<\/a><\/p>\n<p><em>Caecilia Metella, Rhea Silvia<\/em> and <em>Aemilia the Vestal Virgin<\/em> form a single group in terms of format, subject matter and collecting history. The three women were all major figures in ancient Rome in the days of the Republic, the paintings depicting episodes that capture the tragedy of each woman\u2019s fate.<\/p>\n<p>Caecilia Metella is the most mysterious of the three figures that Giani portrayed. Our sources (Plutarch) tell us only that she was the wife of the dictator Silla, who cast her out when she fell ill because he did not want the shadow of the decay associated with her illness to dim the glory of his house. The scene has a tragic connotation in that it effectively alludes to melancholy, to the sense of dejection that accompanies solitude, only partly mitigated here by the consoling presence of a handmaiden embracing Caecilia and urging her not to lose hope.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":4745,"template":"","tag-opera":[],"tecnica":[60],"class_list":["post-7840","opera","type-opera","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tecnica-oil-on-canvas"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pinacotecafaenza.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/opera\/7840","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pinacotecafaenza.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/opera"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pinacotecafaenza.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/opera"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.pinacotecafaenza.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/opera\/7840\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7880,"href":"https:\/\/www.pinacotecafaenza.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/opera\/7840\/revisions\/7880"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pinacotecafaenza.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4745"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pinacotecafaenza.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7840"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"tag-opera","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pinacotecafaenza.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tag-opera?post=7840"},{"taxonomy":"tecnica","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pinacotecafaenza.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tecnica?post=7840"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}