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British artist John William Waterhouse painted this early historical work showing the Roman emperor Nero confronting his mother Agrippina's corpse. The tyrant recoils from the body while servants display it by torchlight. Dramatic shadows and the emperor's horrified expression capture the psychological weight of matricide.
This ambitious canvas predates Waterhouse's famous mythological paintings of women. The subject draws on Roman history's darkest episodes, rendered with Pre-Raphaelite attention to historical detail. Currently in a private collection.
Other masterpieces from the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood movement

Dante Gabriel Rossetti, 1870
Tate Britain, London

John Everett Millais, 1850
Tate Britain, London
John Everett Millais, 1852
Tate Britain, London

Edward Burne-Jones, 1880
Tate Britain, London

Dante Gabriel Rossetti, 1874
Tate Britain, London

William Holman Hunt, 1854
Keble College Chapel, Oxford

John Everett Millais
Ashmolean Museum, Oxford, Oxford

John Everett Millais
Fitzwilliam Museum (University of Cambridge), Cambridge, Cambridge
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