Scipio Africanus the Younger contemplating the Tomb of Scipio Africanus the Elder

manner of Jan Frans van Bloemen, called Orizzonte (Antwerp 1662 – Rome 1749) . Oil painting on canvas, Scipio Africanus the Younger contemplating the Tomb of Scipio Africanus the Elder, manner of Jan Frans van Bloemen, called Orizzonte (Antwerp 1662 – Rome 1749). An unusual subject, showing the younger Scipio, who completed the Roman defeat and destruction of Carthage, and was himself subsequently forced into retirement, contemplating the tomb of his adoptive grandfather, inscribed with the words INGRATIA PATRIA (ungrateful country). For despite his decisive defeat of Hannibal at the Battle of Zama, the elder Scipio was later exiled to his country seat of Liternum, and so gave orders that he should be buried there rather than, as he merited, in Rome. Hinton Ampner, Hampshire (Accredited Museum)