"[...] 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 form of the upper levels of the structure are much debated by scholars and have been reconstructed here after the work of James Packer." (caption, p.235); "It's total length was about 170 metres. [...] The building was 60 metres...
“The porch has sixteen Egyptian grey and red granite columns, each 40 Roman feet in height and weighing about 84 tons. […] The diameter and height of the rotunda are exactly the same, 43.2 metres [meters] (140 feet). […] The walls of the...
Architecture; Monuments; Monuments & memorials; Funerary facilities; Tombs & sepulchral monuments; Emperors; Rulers; People associated with politics & government; Military officers; Military personnel; People associated with military...
"[...] it was originally intended as a free-standing tomb. Above the allegorical figures of Justice and Wisdom is a bronze statue of the pope [...]." (caption, p.432)
"Capital based on the Corinthian order with winged horses (Pegasuses) from a pilaster in Lunense marble, from the first order of the decoration of the interior of the cella of the temple of Mars Ultor. The lower part of the kalathos is covered...
"Recomposition of the attic of the porticoes of the square of the Forum in the House of the Knights of Rhodes: the recomposition was made in the 1940s, with the insertion of original fragments of figures of the divergent caryatids set on their...
"Watercolor view of the northern exedra: it represents a trial in progress, with movable wooden structures. In the central niche can be seen the group of Aeneas, Anchises and Ascanius; statues are set in the framed niches along the...
"Reconstructive elevation of the central niche in the northern exedra, with the insertion of the statuary group of Aeneas, Anchises and Ascanius, from the group in Merida. The elevation shows the articulation of the order in cipollino marble,...
