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Roman Wedding Relief Sculpture

April 29, 2024
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A marble relief of a wedding scene: veiled bride followed by pronuba clasps hands with groom before altar; on the left a huge male carries the sacrificial bull on his shoulder, on the right a maenad dances. ...
Christine Truesdale
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Loix des Douzes Tables

April 26, 2024
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The Twelve Tables Rome's First Legal Code is Drawn up by a Commission Number 36 in Figures de l'histoire de la république romaine accompagnées d'un précis historique, Paris, an VIII. ...
Leanna Di Fulvio
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Vercingetorix before Caesar

April 26, 2024
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The painting depicts the surrender of the Gallic chieftain after the Battle of Alesia (52 BC). The depiction of Gauls with long hair and mustaches is also called into question today. The horse is a Percheron, although at this time this breed was not...
Leanna Di Fulvio
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Colosseum with Stations of the Cross

April 19, 2024
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Giovanni Battista Piranesi's rendering of the Colosseum "revealing the plan and exposing the structure. Piranesi's labels ... inform us of the location in which each rank of Roman society would have been seated, from the emperor and his court to the...
Paul Rombough
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Roman Calendar

April 19, 2024
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Rendering and an actual image of the Fasti Antiates, a painted wall-calendar from the late Roman Republic, the oldest archaeologically attested local Roman calendar and the only such calendar known from before the Julian calendar reforms. (Drawing ...
Paul Rombough
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Pantheon in Rome

April 19, 2024
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Reconstruction of the Pantheon in Rome, seen from the side, cut away to reveal the interior. ...
Paul Rombough
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Mausoleum of Augustus

April 19, 2024
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Idealized painting of the heritage site of the Mausoleum of Augustus (1575) by Étienne Dúperac, with a view of the gardens of Cardinal Francesco Soderini. ...
Paul Rombough
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