Details: 2009, acrylic on acid-free matboard, 40.5 x 50.5 cm. You may also view a close-up of this work (1.87MB), or a step-by-step image (444KB) showing how this work progressed.
Description: Latin, the very odd-looking monster, likes to chew things! Its tail speaks Latin, though the brain is located in the head.
Note: Although many of the magnificent ancient Roman statues were originally brightly painted, I've kept them plain here to emphasise their contrast with their attacker. Other artistic liberties were freely taken, despite me having access to a Latin-reading, university-educated Ancient Rome know-it-all while sketching this work.
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