Alexander at the Tomb of Cyrus the Great  1796

This landscape and its companion piece, [i][url=https://www.artic.edu/artworks/100061/mount-athos-carved-as-a-monument-to-alexander-the-great]Mount Athos Carved as a Monument to Alexander the Great[/url][/i], reflect the late-18th-century enthusiasm for the antique, as well as the cult of sensibility that made the tomb in a landscape a favored subject for art in this perio...