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Round Tower. Fictitious prison space from the second edition of Piranesi's "Carceri d'invenzione"(c. 1761).

Tags: Architecture and built environment, Art and antiquities, Captives, Human types, Imaginary representations - Reconstructions, Italy, Prisons, Rome, Torture

Round Tower. Fictitious prison space from the first edition of Piranesi's "Carceri d'invenzione" (1749/50).

Tags: Architecture and built environment, Art and antiquities, Captives, Human types, Imaginary representations - Reconstructions, Italy, Prisons, Rome, Torture

Man in the rack. Depiction of torture from Piranesi's "Carceri d'invenzione".

Tags: Architecture and built environment, Art and antiquities, Captives, Human types, Imaginary representations - Reconstructions, Italy, Prisons, Rome, Torture

Imaginary depiction of funerary chamber at Roman mausoleum.

Tags: Architecture and built environment, Art and antiquities, Funerary monuments, Imaginary representations - Reconstructions, Italy, Mausoleums, Roman architecture, Roman monuments, Roman sarcophagi, Rome, Sphinxes

Imaginary depiction of Roman altar.

Tags: Ancient temples, Architecture and built environment, Art and antiquities, Imaginary representations - Reconstructions, Italy, Reliefs, Roman architecture, Roman monuments, Rome

Imaginary depiction of Roman mausoleum, Rome.

Tags: Architecture and built environment, Art and antiquities, Funerary monuments, Human types, Imaginary representations - Reconstructions, Italy, Mausoleums, Roman architecture, Roman monuments, Rome

Imaginary depiction of Roman temple, Rome.

Tags: Ancient temples, Architecture and built environment, Art and antiquities, Human types, Imaginary representations - Reconstructions, Italy, Roman architecture, Roman monuments, Rome

Imaginary depiction of tetrapylon and fountain at Doric portico in Rome.

Tags: Architecture and built environment, Fountains / Springs, Human types, Imaginary representations - Reconstructions, Italy, Porticoes - Stoas, Rome

Imaginary depiction of Doric stoa, Rome.

Tags: Architecture and built environment, Human types, Imaginary representations - Reconstructions, Italy, Porticoes - Stoas, Rome

Imaginary depiction of part of the Roman forum, Rome.

Tags: Architecture and built environment, Art and antiquities, Fountains / Springs, Human types, Imaginary representations - Reconstructions, Italy, Roman architecture, Roman monuments, Rome

Imaginary depiction of entrance to ancient temple, Rome.

Tags: Ancient temples, Architecture and built environment, Art and antiquities, Human types, Imaginary representations - Reconstructions, Italy, Roman architecture, Roman monuments, Rome

Imaginary depiction of palace with columns, in Rome.

Tags: Architecture and built environment, Human types, Imaginary representations - Reconstructions, Italy, Palaces, Rome

Imaginary depiction of stairways in Rome.

Tags: Architecture and built environment, Fountains / Springs, Human types, Imaginary representations - Reconstructions, Interiors, Italy, Rome

Imaginary depiction of Capitoline Hill in Rome. On the left, the temple of Jupiter. At the centre, mounted statue of Marcus Aurelius. In the background, on the right, modern buildings situated on the hill.

Tags: Architecture and built environment, Art and antiquities, Capitoline Hill (Rome), Human types, Imaginary representations - Reconstructions, Italy, Obelisks, Roman architecture, Roman monuments, Rome, Sculptures, Temple of Jupiter (Capitoline Hill), Women

Hall of public building of the Roman period, Rome (imaginary depiction).

Tags: Architecture and built environment, Art and antiquities, Human types, Imaginary representations - Reconstructions, Interiors, Italy, Roman architecture, Roman monuments, Rome, Sculptures

Imaginary depiction of bridge, probably Milvio bridge, in Rome.

Tags: Architecture and built environment, Art and antiquities, Boats and ships, Bridges, Imaginary representations - Reconstructions, Italy, Milvio Bridge (Rome), Roman monuments, Rome

Remains of mausoleum in Rome (imaginary depiction).

Tags: Architecture and built environment, Art and antiquities, Human types, Imaginary representations - Reconstructions, Italy, Roman architecture, Roman monuments, Rome

Remains of monumental buildings in Rome.

Tags: Architecture and built environment, Art and antiquities, Human types, Italy, Roman architecture, Roman monuments, Rome

View of prison in Rome (imaginary depiction).

Tags: Human types, Imaginary representations - Reconstructions, Italy, Prisons, Rome, Social sphere and everyday life, Views

View of sculpture gallery in Rome (imaginary depiction).

Tags: Architecture and built environment, Art and antiquities, Costume - Hats and headwear, Human types, Imaginary representations - Reconstructions, Italy, Rome, Sculptures

Bust of Diogenes from Villa Albani, Rome.

Tags: Art and antiquities, Diogenes, Italy, Rome, Sculptures, Villa Albani

Bust of Socrates, Vatican Museums.

Tags: Art and antiquities, Italy, Rome, Sculptures, Socrates, Vatican, Vatican Museum

Bust of Demosthenes, Vatican Museums.

Tags: Ancient authors, Art and antiquities, Demosthenes, Italy, Orators, Rome, Sculptures, Vatican, Vatican Museum

Statue of Posidippus, Roman copy of Hellenistic original, Vatican Museums, Rome.

Tags: Ancient authors, Art and antiquities, Italy, Poseidippus, Rome, Sculptures, Vatican, Vatican Museum

Statue of seated figure, traditionally called Menander, Vatican Museums, Rome.

Tags: Ancient authors, Art and antiquities, Italy, Menander, Rome, Sculptures, Vatican, Vatican Museum

Statue of Sophocles, Vatican Museums.

Tags: Ancient authors, Art and antiquities, Italy, Rome, Sculptures, Sophocles

Sculpture of Laocoön and his Sons, Vatican Museums, Rome.

Tags: Art and antiquities, Italy, Laocoon, Mythology, Rome, Sculptures, Vatican, Vatican Museum

Statue of the “Dying Gaul”, Roman copy of lost Hellenistic original, Capitoline Museums, Rome.

Tags: Art and antiquities, Capitoline Museums, Italy, Rome, Sculptures

Zeus of Otricoli, Vatican Museums.

Tags: Art and antiquities, Italy, Rome, Sculptures, Vatican, Zeus, Zeus of Otricoli

Drawing of sculpture of the Discobolus (Discus-thrower) type, probably based on Townley Discobolus, a copy of Myro's sculpture discovered in Hadrian's Villa at Tivoli and housed today at the British Museum, London. Drawing of sculpture of the Discophoros (Discus-bearer) type, probably based on Townley Discophoros, a copy of the sculpture by Polyclitus, discovered in Hadrian's Villa at Tivoli and housed today at the British Museum, London.

Tags: Art and antiquities, British Museum, Discobolus of Myron, Discophorus of Polyclitus, Italy, London, Rome, Sculptures, Townley Discobolus, Townley Discophorus

Vatican Apoxyomenos.

Tags: Art and antiquities, Italy, Rome, Sculptures, Vatican

Capitoline Faun, Vatican Museums.

Tags: Art and antiquities, Greece, Praxiteles, Rome, Satyrs, Sculptors, Sculptures, Vatican

Statue of Hermes. Statue of Asclepius.

Tags: Art and antiquities, Asclepius, Hermes, Italy, Rome, Sculptures

The Eros of Centocelle, Vatican Museum.

Tags: Art and antiquities, Eros, Italy, Praxiteles, Rome, Sculptors, Sculptures, Vatican, Vatican Museum

Portrait of Aspasia drawn according to the Vatican bust.

Tags: Art and antiquities, Aspasia, Costume - Hats and headwear, Italy, Rome, Sculptures, Vatican, Vatican Museum, Women

Female sculpture, Vatican museum.

Tags: Art and antiquities, Costume - Hats and headwear, Human types, Italy, Rome, Sculptures, Vatican, Vatican Museum, Women

Statue of the Capitoline Venus type, from the Capitoline Museums.

Tags: Art and antiquities, Capitoline Museums, Capitoline Venus, Italy, Praxiteles, Professions, Roman monuments, Rome, Sculptures

Apollo of Belvedere (Roman statue of Hadrian's era, based on a copper original of the 4th century, possibly by Leochares).

Tags: Art and antiquities, Belvedere Apollo, Italy, Roman monuments, Rome, Sculptures, Vatican, Vatican Museum

Statue of Demosthenes, Vatican Museums.

Tags: Art and antiquities, Demosthenes, Italy, Orators, Rome, Sculptures, State and military institutions - Diplomatic relations, Vatican

Porta Appia or Porta San Sebastiano at the walls of Marcus Aurelius, Rome.

Tags: Architecture and built environment, Art and antiquities, Aurelian Walls (Rome), Italy, Porta Appia, Porta San Sebastiano, Rome, Walls

Tomb of Guillaume Durand, bishop of Mende in the church of Santa Maria sopra Minerva, Rome.

Tags: Architecture and built environment, Church of Santa Maria sopra Minerva (Rome), Guillaume Durand, Italy, Priests, Religious practices, Rome

Part of an inscription, according to tradition the one which hung over the Holy Cross, today kept at Santa Croce Basilica, Rome.

Tags: Basilica of the Holy Cross in Jerusalem (Santa Croce in Gerusalemme ), Churches, Italy, Religious practices, Rome

Mosaic from the basilica of Santa Maria di Trastevere in Rome (twelfth century).

Tags: Architecture and built environment, Church of Santa Maria di Trastevere (Rome), Churches, Italy, Mosaics, Religious practices, Rome

Vrefokratoussa mosaic at the church of Santa Maria in Domnica, Rome (ninth century).

Tags: Architecture and built environment, Church of Santa Maria in Domnica (Rome), Churches, Italy, Mosaics, Religious practices, Rome, Vrefokratousa (Virgin holding infant Jesus)

Interior of the church of Santa Constanza in Rome, built by Constantine I in memory of his daughter, Constantia.

Tags: Architecture and built environment, Church of Santa Constanza (Rome), Churches, Constans, Early Christian Monuments, Emperors, Funerary monuments, Human types, Italy, Prayer, Religious practices, Rome

Mosaic of the sixth century at the basilica of Santi Cosma e Damiano, which was built on the site of Romulus's temple at the Forum of Rome.

Tags: Arquitecture and built environment, Art and antiquities, Churches, Italy, Mosaics, Religious practices, Rome, Temple of Romulus / Santi Cosma e Damiano (Rome)

Portrait of Pope Clement XI.

Tags: Costume - Hats and headwear, Italy, Pope Clement XI, Popes, Portraits, Rome

The voyage of Aeneas from Troy to Rome as described by Dionisius Halicarnasseus in “Roman Archaeology”.

Tags: Aeneas, Asia, Dionysius of Halicarnassus, Greece, History, Italy, Maps, Roman mythology, Rome, Turkey

The voyage of Aeneas from Troy to Rome as described by Virgil.

Tags: Aeneid, Asia, Greece, History, Italy, Maps, Roman mythology, Rome, Turkey, Vergil

Vatican Nile.

Tags: Allegories, Art and antiquities, Italy, Roman antiquities, Rome, Sculptures, Vatican Nile (statue)

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