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
Portion of an antique print showing the Pantheon temple and a sacrificial procession
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.
Roman wall in “Opus Reticulatum”
The Pons Aemilius bridge over the Tiber near the Tiber Island.
A roman road made with Basalt blocks. Notice the neatly paved edge.
An early Roman or even Etruscan wall made of stone blocks with no mortar.
Image of the paving on an ancient roman road.
A Roman ship’s rostrum
A roman ship with its crew.
Ancient Roman Clothing – the lady’s “Palla”
The Roman god Mercury wearing his stylish traveler’s hat.
ncient Roman Clothing for men
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 Stola
A slave according to an antique print about Ancient Roman clothing
An etruscan horseman, possibly an allusion to Achilles.
Etruscan dancers & early togas
Etruscan fresco of hunting and fishing.
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
Ancient Rome naval games – Naumachia
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. 4thC BC.
A Greek Thracian Gladiator with spear and shield
A roman ship
A picture of an ancient Etruscan gladius sword.
Picture of ancient Greek armor made of bronze
Ancient Greek bronze helmet
Clay figurine of a theatre character with tamborine
A clay figurine of an ancient roman gladiator
Ancient roman theatre masks – from clay figurines
Sketch of an ancient roman water pump.
Ancient roman clay figurine of a theatre character
A view of Constantine’s triumphal arch and the Colosseum behind.
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
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….
Image of an ancient Roman ship known as a Quinquireme