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The Submersion of Pharaoh's Army in the Red Sea

1514–15, printed 1549
woodcut
40 × 55 cm (15.7 × 21.7 in)

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FROM THE CLEVELAND MUSEUM OF ART’S CATALOG

Titian may have identified the Egyptians in this composition, drowned in the Red Sea as they pursue the fleeing Israelites, with the League of Cambrai, a military alliance formed by the major powers in southern Europe and a menace to his hometown of Venice.

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