Les Indes galantes
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Les Indes galantes is a ballet héroïque, a type of French Baroque opera-ballet, by Jean-Philippe Rameau with a libretto by Louis Fuzelier. In its final form it comprised an allegorical prologue and fo
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Bellona (goddess)
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Bellona is an ancient Roman goddess of war. She is generally characterized as embodying the destructive and brutal side of warfare. Her main attribute is the military helmet worn on her head; she ofte
Les Indes galantes
…Italians and Poles rush to celebrate with a series of dances, including a musette. The ballet is interrupted by the noise of drums and trumpets. It is Bellona, goddess of war, who arrives on the stage accompanied by warriors bearing flags. Bellona calls on the youths to seek out military glory (Air and chorus…
A bust of Bellona by Jan Cosijn, a 1697 victory celebration over a Brussels doorway
"Bellona Leading the Imperial Armies against the Turks", a 1600 print of Bartholomaeus Spranger's design
Bellona, by Johann Baptist Straub, 1770
Auguste Rodin's 1879 bronze bust of Bellona in the Musée Rodin, Paris