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Pantheon, Rome, Italy, axonometric view.
Architecture; Temples; Religious facilities; Buildings; Drawings; Architectural drawings; Cutaway drawings; Axonometric projections; Projections; Reconstructions; Illustrations; Conjectural works; Structural drawings; Structural systems drawings;...
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Column of Marcus Aurelius, Rome, Italy, spiral frieze, detail.
Architecture; Monuments; Monuments & memorials; Columns; Emperors; Rulers; People associated with politics & government; Victories; Campaigns & battles; Battlefields; War; Sculpture; Architectural sculpture; Architectural decorations...
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Column of Marcus Aurelius, Rome, Italy, spiral frieze, detail, Romans battling Germans.
Architecture; Monuments; Monuments & memorials; Columns; Emperors; Rulers; People associated with politics & government; Victories; Campaigns & battles; Battlefields; War; Sculpture; Architectural sculpture; Architectural decorations...
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Pantheon, Rome, Italy, plan.
Architecture; Temples; Religious facilities; Buildings; Rotundas; Circular buildings; Circular rooms; Rooms & spaces; Architectural elements; Structural elements; Alcoves; Porches; Porticoes (Porches); Stairways; Columns; Colonnades; Domes;...
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Pantheon, Rome, Italy, reconstruction, with cutaway of dome.
Architecture; Temples; Religious facilities; Buildings; Drawings; Architectural drawings; Cutaway drawings; Reconstructions; Illustrations; Conjectural works; Structural drawings; Structural systems drawings; Architectural elements; Structural...
“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...
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Sarcophagus of Cornelius Statius, front panel.
Sculpture; Sarcophagi; Coffins; Death & burial; Containers; Monuments & memorials; Memorial works; Inscriptions; Human life cycle; Childhood & youth; Domestic life; Child rearing; Breast feeding; Feeding; Lifting & carrying; Riding;...
"[…] this child's sarcophagus has been reassembled from many fragments. The front panel is, however, in fairly good condition, with a few missing pieces reconstructed from Carrara marble. […] This sarcophagus is among the earliest of the...
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Temple of Mars Ultor, Rome, Italy, capital.
Architecture; Temples; Religious facilities; Buildings; Sculpture; Architectural sculpture; Architectural decorations & ornaments; Architectural elements; Structural elements; Capitals (Columns); Columns; Architectural orders; Corinthian order;...
"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...
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Column of Marcus Aurelius, Rome, Italy, general view.
Architecture; Monuments; Monuments & memorials; Columns; Emperors; Rulers; People associated with politics & government; Victories; Campaigns & battles; War; Sculpture; Architectural sculpture; Architectural decorations & ornaments;...
"Constructed between AD 180 and 196 on the northern part of the Campus Martius [...]" (caption, p.130)
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Column of Marcus Aurelius, Rome, Italy, spiral frieze, detail, showing emperor's campaigns against Germanic tribes.
Architecture; Monuments; Monuments & memorials; Columns; Emperors; Rulers; People associated with politics & government; Victories; Campaigns & battles; Battlefields; War; Sculpture; Architectural sculpture; Architectural decorations...
"Constructed between AD 180 and 196 on the northern part of the Campus Martius [...]" (caption, p.130)
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Augustus, front view.
Sculpture; Portraits; Heads (Anatomy); Men; Emperors; Rulers; People associated with politics & government; Hairstyles
Portrait head. "This portrait has fundamental importance in the study of Augustan iconography. Both it and a very similar portrait in the Forbes collection are considered excellent examples of the Louvre type of Augustan portrait. [...] This...
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