Women Gladiators (Ribera)
{{Short description|1636 painting by Jusepe de Ribera}}
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{{Infobox Artwork
| image_file = José de Ribera 026.jpg
| title = Women Gladiators
| other_language_1 = Spanish
| other_title_1 = Combate de Mujeres
| artist = Jusepe de Ribera
| year = 1636
| height_metric = 235
| width_metric = 212
| height_imperial =
| width_imperial =
| metric_unit = cm
| imperial_unit = in
| city = Madrid
| museum = Museo del Prado
}}
Women Gladiators (Spanish: Combate de Mujeres) is a painting by Jusepe de Ribera made in oil on canvas. It is conserved in the Museo del Prado, Madrid.{{Cite web|url=https://www.museodelprado.es/en/the-collection/art-work/women-gladiators/ee076233-5858-4a35-a5c0-9ce631cd5382|title = Women Gladiators - the Collection - Museo Nacional del Prado}}
Description
The painting, dated and signed, was made in Naples in 1636, as part of a series of over thirty pictures on the history of Rome commissioned to Giovanni Lanfranco, Domenichino, Ribera himself, and other artists.
Analysis
The painting depicts a legendary episode occurred at Naples in 1552. Two women, Isabella of Carazzi and Diambra of Pottinella, in the presence of the Marquis of the Vast dispute in a duel for the love of a man called Fabio Zeresola. The subject matter of the painting has also been held to be an allegory of the fight between Vice and Virtue.
References
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- {{cite book|author=Ernesto Ballesteros Arranz|title=32.- Ribera|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=CF8SCAAAQBAJ&pg=PA4|date=2 February 2015|publisher=Hiares Multimedia|isbn=978-84-15855-91-0|pages=4–}}
- {{cite book|author=Miranda Aldhouse-Green|title=Boudica Britannia|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=dox9AwAAQBAJ&pg=PA114|date=1 May 2014|publisher=Routledge|isbn=978-1-317-86630-5|pages=114–}}