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Belisarius Begging for Alms (French: Bélisaire demandant l’aumône) is a large-format (288 × 312 cm) history painting in oil on canvas by Jacques-Louis David. It depicts the Byzantine general Belisarius who heroically defeated the Vandals in North Africa in AD 533–534 on behalf of Justinian I and (according to an apocryphal account probably added to his biography in the Middle Ages) was later blinded by the emperor and reduced to begging for alms on the street.
