Coriolanus wordt ontwapend door Veturia 1818

Bartolomeo Pinelli etched this print, *Coriolanus wordt ontwapend door Veturia*, depicting a pivotal scene from Roman history. Note the strong gesture of Veturia, Coriolanus' mother, pointing, a plea frozen in time. Such gestures, potent with meaning, resurface across epochs. We can trace them back through antiquity. Consider the figures in classical sculpture or even earlier, ancient Egyptian art, where the raised hand often signifies supplication. Here, in Pinelli's rendering, the gesture taps into a deep well of collective memory. The plea of a mother to her son, is a primal scene which carries not just the weight of familial bonds, but also that of societal expectations and cultural norms. It speaks to the psychoanalytic concept of the return of the repressed, where deeply embedded archetypes emerge. This motif embodies a powerful emotional force, reminding us that even in acts of war, human connections and primal bonds remain. These gestures are not linear but cyclical, resurfacing in art through time.