We started to gather prints, maps, drawings, photographs of ancient Rome and its culture. Any picture of Ancient Rome that gives a fresh angle on the beauty and meaning of “Rome” the Eternal city deserves investigating a little further: Customs, art, and civilisation.
Title page of an antique book on Ancient Rome. The antiquities of Rome have inspired every generation since the Empire itself – even the marauding Barbarians.
An antique map of Ancient Rome.
An ancient Roman triumph parade through a triumphal arch like the arch of Constantine (this thumbnail is a section!) Several triumphal arches pictures are shown further below.
An antique print of the Ancient Roman Pantheon in Rome.
An ancient Roman triumph parade through a triumphal arch like the arch of Constantine (this thumbnail is a section!) Several triumphal arches pictures are shown further below.
Ancient Roman crowns of honour. For example, Julius Caesar was awarded the crown of Oak leaves in his youth for the valor he showed in battle.
Colosseum – an antique print
Roman gladiator history
an antique print of Roman Coins – 49 emperors from Julius Caesar through to Constantine the Great.
Antique print showing the Pantheon temple and a sacrificial procession with the relevant roles, musicians, animals and other persons involved in the procession.
Roman theater mask
Image of an emperor’s funeral in Ancient Rome
Drawing of a Roman woman wearing a Stola.
Full length drawing of a clay figurine of a roman actress. Pompeii.
A small well in a shop. Possibly to be used for sanitation or drainage.
“Opus Reticulatum” Roman wall faced with tufa bricks
The Pons Aemilius bridge over the riber Tiber near the Tiber Island.
A roman road made with Basalt blocks. Notice the neatly paved edge.
An early Roman or even Etruscan foundation wall made of Tufa volcanic stone blocks with no mortar.
Image of the basalt stone paving on an ancient roman road.
A Roman ship’s rostrum. A number of rostra taken in battle were used to adorn a speaker’s corner in the Roman Forum
A roman ship with its crew.
Ancient Roman Clothing – the lady’s “Stola” was worn as a mantle covering the entire body when going out of the house. It sat over the Stola, wrapped the body down to the feet.
The Roman god Mercury wearing his stylish traveler’s hat.
Ancient Roman Clothing for men. Palliatus would refer to a man of Greek origin wearing a Pallium cloak.
A patrician boy wearing the sacred toga Preatexta.
Roman Commander
Picture of a Toga Praetexta with its thick purple stripe around the border.
Image of the Emperor wearing a Chlamys and holding the orb as symbol of his power over the world.
An ancient Roman wearing a Toga
Antique print of a Roman lady wearing a Palla
An antique print of a eunuch slave wearing trousers under a women’s stola.
An etruscan horseman, possibly an allusion to Achilles.
Etruscan tomb painting of dancers and musicians
Etruscan fresco of hunting and fishing.
Etruscan fresco of boxers and an augur
An antique print of the Pantheon manipulated by computer to show up Architectural features.
What the Roman Pantheon looks like today.
A view up the Tiber towards Castel St. Angelo and St. Peter’s
Emperor Claudius’ amphitheatre. Like the Colosseum but a little smaller!
Print of the central partition dividing the track in the Circus Maximus in Rome. See next pic for the Obelisk.
Roman Chariots were made for differing purposes. The image shows a light racing chariot.
Ancient Rome naval games called Naumachia were organised in numerous places, also including lakes or amphitheatres like the Colosseum. Naval games at the Colosseum were stopped after the tunnels and galleries were built under the arena at the time of Emperor Domitian.
The 13C BC Egyptian obelisk symbolizing the sun which stood in the centre of the Circus Maximus. Planted there by Emperor Augustus.
A gladiator’s bronze helmet found at Pompeii
A chariot race in Ancient Rome’s Circus Maximus – running over the competition at the Metae….
Drawing of an ancient roman gladiator’s helmet
The helmet was an essential element of armor for certain types of gladiator
A bronze gladiator’s shield
Gladiators fighting at a funeral -Roman gladiator history
An ancient Etruscan chariot for military parades. 6thC BC.
A Greek Thracian Gladiator with spear and shield
A roman ship – shipping into Rome increased greatly particularly with surging urbanisation and an increasing need for grain imports.
Picture of ancient Greek armor made of bronze
Ancient Greek bronze helmet
Clay figurine of a theatre character with tamborine
Ancient roman theatre masks – from clay figurines
A simple drawing of a metal pump with very modern valves. Ancient Roman Inventions such as this would have been used to pump water out of sites such as mines.
Ancient roman clay figurine of a theatre character
clay figurine of an actor in the theatre of ancient Rome
View of the Colosseum’s arches
A top view of the Colosseum
A section view of the Colosseum and below
gladiator fight at the Colosseum with a Lanista judging the combat
A gladiator defending himself from an attacking lion.
A christian sent to death ab bestias.
A gladiator defending himself from wild beasts in the Circus Maximus
The triumphal arch of Titus. Built by his brother Domitian to commemmorate the taking of Jerusalem.
River Tiber and St. Peter’s Basilica in Rome
Image taken from Foxe’s Book of Martyrs, printed at about the same time that Giordano Bruno was being burned at the stake in Rome in the year 1600.
Might Erik Verlinde consider this a worthy example of mixing information, time and space ? A column is made to defy gravity after all….
Ancient Roman army trophies – war trophies such as these were placed in the temple to Mars. General Sulla removed Mariu’s trophies, which Julius Caesar later replaced.
Image of an ancient Roman ship known as a Quinquireme
