Ars longa, vita brevis

Daria | artist | Ancient Rome ▪︎ star wars ▪︎ reylo

[gizromana]

Ave Quirites!

I've created this blog as a secondary one to dedicate it fully to my obsession with the history of Ancient Rome. Here I will post all my art on the subject, including a possible reylo passion project incorporated into the context of Ancient Rome. But rest assured - I will reblog everything on the matter to my main blog @gizskyriser, so you don't need to follow me here if you're not interested in Rome gasp

[colin-vian]

  Ancient Greek theater Masks

[horrorofthebeast]

[siruerto]

Sulla if he was in Astérix

I was reading an Astérix fanfic and there was a mention of Sulla and Marius, and I was like OH i need to try it!!

[last-of-the-romans]

The Painted Garden of the Villa of Livia.  

[siruerto]

Choose your Agrippa

[tridentandtales]

Group of ancient Greek perfume bottles

610 - 550 BCE

British Museum 1860,0404.38

[uncleclaudius]

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.

[thempyrealexicon]

AAAQH. AAH. FUCK.

[kyrasaphira]

Statuette of Venus made from rock crystal quartz (Roman, 1st century BC)

[thetwelvecaesars]

[passports-pls]

For an RP I joined I had the biggest opportunity of applying as a historical figure and send them to hell... So naturally I had to choose Caligula YAY YIPPEE

The second artwork is 100% ripped off from the Caligula movie poster I couldn't resist even if that movie makes me grind my teeth down to nubs

I'm so excited to put him through horrors but ALSO to finally post about him more often!! [ Instagram | Vgen ]

[necrophilologist]

in this dark age of censorship, remember that if ovid managed to stay a pervert during the moralising tyranny of the augustan age, you can do the same now. don't worry about what happened to him next

[corporialus]

Trajan study

[treasuresfromthearchives]

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."

[yuri-pdf]

happy ides of march

[ancientartarcheology]

Garden, Roman fresco. Casa del Bracciale d' Oro in Pompei, now Museo Archeologico Nazionale Napoli

[coffeestomach]