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Educated at an elite local school, his talents were spotted by Joachim Sotta, a local artist, who taught him initially. He first competed for the prestigious Prix de Rome in , but was unsuccessful. He then moved to the French Academy in Rome in January , travelling in northern Italy during the following summer. When Caesar had famously crossed the Rubicon and driven Pompey from Italy, he then tried to cross the straits of Brindisi in disguise as a slave, in his pursuit of Pompey, who had fled to Greece.

Caesar stands, looking quite unlike a slave, in the small boat, as its oarsmen struggle to make headway in the mounting sea.

Contains transcriptions of letters by Paladilhe, from Bizet to Paladilhe, from Paladilhe to Jules-Elie Delaunay, and notes on an article from Le Courrier de l'.

He then made the famous remark, quoted by Plutarch Lives, volume 2 : Fear not, you are carrying Caesar and his fortune. Delaunay returned to Paris after travelling in , after which he started to make studies for The Plague of Rome below. The following year he visited London. The Plague of Rome is based on an episode reported in The Golden Legend, a mediaeval compilation by Jacques de Voragine, in which plague was raging in Rome.

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A pair of angels were claimed to have appeared, one good, the other bad. The good angel then gave the commands for people to die of the plague, and the bad angel carried the commands out. At the right edge of the canvas, the white statue appropriately shows Aesculapius or Asclepius , the god of medicine. It is thought that Delaunay based this painting on a fresco in the basilica of San Pietro in Vincoli, which shows the plague in Rome in Sadly I cannot show it here, but it is to be seen via this link.

David Triumphant tells the well-known Old Testament story of David and Goliath, moments after the young and slight hero David has felled the Philistine giant Goliath, who had been troubling the Israelites under King Saul. The rather androgynous, almost elfin, figure of David holds aloft the slingshot which he used to topple Goliath, and carries over his left shoulder the huge sword, still bloodied, with which he then beheaded him.