Sebastiaen Slodtz, in France called Sébastien Slodtz (1655–1726) was a Flemish sculptor and decorator who after training in his native Antwerp, moved to France where he became a court sculptor to the King.
He was the father of three sons who helped further shape official French sculpture between the Baroque and the Rococo.
Hannibal counting the rings of the Roman knights killed at the Battle of Cannae, 1704 (Musée du Louvre)
Aristaeus fettering Proteus
The Battle of Cannae was a key engagement of the Second Punic War between the Roman Republic and Carthage, fought on 2 August 216 BC near the ancient village of Cannae in Apulia, southeast Italy. The Carthaginians and their allies, led by Hannibal, surrounded and practically annihilated a larger Roman and Italian army under the consuls Lucius Aemilius Paullus and Gaius Terentius Varro. It is regarded as one of the greatest tactical feats in military history and one of the worst defeats in Roman history, and it cemented Hannibal's reputation as one of antiquity's greatest tacticians.
John Trumbull, The Death of Paulus Aemilius at the Battle of Cannae (1773)
A modern monument near the site of the Battle of Cannae
A modern interpretation of a slinger from the Balearic Islands, famous for the skill of their slingers
Philip V of Macedon pledged his support to Hannibal following the Carthaginian victory.
