“The Colosseum was begun by Vespasian in the 70s AD on the site of the lake of Nero’s Domus Aurea, and was financed from the spoils of the sack of Jerusalem in AD 70. It was dedicated in AD 80 by Titus, after his father’s death.” (p.192)
“The Colosseum was begun by Vespasian in the 70s AD on the site of the lake of Nero’s Domus Aurea, and was financed from the spoils of the sack of Jerusalem in AD 70. It was dedicated in AD 80 by Titus, after his father’s death.” (p.192)
Based on a drawing by Lanciano and Carpano (caption, p.197); “The Colosseum was begun by Vespasian in the 70s AD on the site of the lake of Nero’s Domus Aurea, and was financed from the spoils of the sack of Jerusalem in AD 70. It was dedicated...
"[...] with the stucco decoration restored from the existing remains and from Renaissance drawings." (caption, p.194); “The Colosseum was begun by Vespasian in the 70s AD on the site of the lake of Nero’s Domus Aurea, and was financed...
"The construction technique and decorations of the villa suggest that it must have been built around the middle of the first century B.C. Only about thirty years earlier the Roman general Lucius Cornelius Sulla had conquered Pompeii and...
First version; "Dali's atomic variation on the Assumption, with Gala as tutelary goddess of Port Lligat." (Caption); Dali's first 'religious painting', designed to ingratiate himself with Church and State, was The Madonna of Port Lligat,...
The Louvre portrait is of a "young boy wearing a toga praetexta (a purple-bordered toga) and bulla (ornament worn around a child's neck). […] Comparisons with coins bearing the image of Britannicus exclude the possibility that this is a...
Architecture; Buildings; Public baths; Bathhouses; Health & hygiene facilities; Social & civic facilities; Rooms & spaces; Paintings; Murals; Friezes (Ornamental bands); Sex; Erotica; Relations between the sexes; Men; Women; Couples;...
"Detail of a famous erotic frieze, probably painted during the time of Nero, in the apodyterium of the Suburban Baths of Pompeii: a true illustrated manual of various sexual positions, it appears to have been inspired by literary works on...
