Ancient Rome

All things related to Rome, both historical and fictional.

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The Painted Garden of the Villa of Livia.  

[2seeitall]

Roof of the Library of Celsus, Ephesus, Turkey

[marcustulliuscicero]

are you Rome in 64 AD? cause you’re smoking

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Glass plaque with sphinx. Roman 1st century CE.

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Fresco.

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Augustus of Prima Porta (Augustus -Octavian- was the founder of the Roman Empire and the first Roman emperor from 27 BC until his death in AD 14)

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Satyr and Maenad

62–79 AD

Pompeii (Origin)

Fresco

Museo Archeologico Nazionale di Napoli

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Detail view of reliefs (North Façade) on Arch of Constantine located in Rome, Italy near the Colosseum. All about Arch of Constantine.

[mirandahamilton]

spartacus fashion: ilithyia’s pink floral dress in spartacus: blood and sand (s1e1)

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Germanicus, nephew and adopted son of Tiberius, his presumed successor, sadly died in 19 AD. Instead, Germanicus's son Gaius (Caligula) succeeded Tiberius as Emperor.

[uncleclaudius]

Mosaic with sea creatures from the House of the Faun, Pompeii.

[archaicwonder]

Roman Gold and Garnet Herakles Knot Ring, 2nd-3rd Century AD

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[didoofcarthage]

Pitcher with trefoil mouth and handles

Roman, 1st to 5th century A.D.

glass

Brooklyn Museum

[outyourdoor]

Pantheon, Rome (by Gabriella)

[mirandahamilton]

spartacus fashion: ilithyia’s draped pink and gold gown in spartacus: blood and sand (s1e9)

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Julius Caesar

Andrea di Pietro di Marco Ferrucci Italian

ca. 1512–14

"Ferrucci’s pleasing Julius Caesar exemplifies the delicately ornate, a l’antica style of Florentine sculpture fashionable in the fifteenth and early sixteenth centuries. While the face is strikingly naturalistic and portrait-like, the profuse amount of surface detail seems to disperse rather than unify form and to reduce the scale of the sculpture rather than create a sense of monumentality. The innovations of Michelangelo’s Brutus emerge when it is compared to Ferrucci’s bust. Ten years older than Michelangelo, Ferrucci was described by Vasari as one of those marvelous "sculptors who without knowing at all how to draw on paper nevertheless brings their works to a fine and praiseworthy finish with their chisels." He became head of the workforce at San Lorenzo in 1524, where his expertise in carving marble proved valuable to Michelangelo."