Items in Rome

Combat of Gladiators with Wild Animals

In the foreground, a Roman gladiator fights with a lion; he is naked from head to foot except for what look like metal underpants and a ring around his left leg, and he brandishes a short sword or dag [...]

Keywords: weapons, people, nudity, animals, bare feet, lions, gladiators, battles, greyscale

Places shown: Rome

Added: 2007-09-03

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Head of a Roman House Offering Sacrifice

A man, bare-headed and robed, pours from a two-handled jug into a lamp or jug. He is standing by a shrine. “Rome had no sacerdotal caste because the heads of each house were also the priests of the [...]

Keywords: religion, spirit, people, night scenes, death, greyscale

Places shown: Rome; Italy

Added: 2007-03-15

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Porta San Paolo

“Gate in the Aurelian wall rebuilt by Belisarius. This is the gate of the Ostian Way to the basilica of S. Paul’s—one of the seven great pilgrimage churches—of which the Kings of England were Protect [...]

Keywords: castles, colour, towers, people

Places shown: Rome; Italy

Added: 2006-06-05

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S. Peter’s and Castel Sant’ Angelo From the Tiber

A painting showing St Peter’s Basilica and Saint Angelo’s Castle from the river Tiber, at sunset. There is also a version of this image cropped for use as a computer desktop background, or wallpaper i [...]

Keywords: rome, churches, cathedrals, colour, sunsets, christmas

Places shown: Rome; Italy

Added: 2006-02-09

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A Procession in the Catacomb of Callistus

Navigating the underground paths of the dead in Rome, carrying only a flickering torch to fend off the darkness! The note printed on the tissue-paper protecting this image reads: The nucleus of the gr [...]

Keywords: death, caves, people, roman remains, catacombs, interiors, colour, spooky

Places shown: Rome; Italy

Added: 2006-02-09

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St. Peter’s Rome from the River Tiber: wallpaper version

A version of the painting of St. Peter’s Rome from the River Tiber cropped for use as a screen background, desktop, wallpaper image, root window picture, or whatever you want to call it.

Keywords: backgrounds, wallpaper, colour, cathedrals, sunsets

Places shown: Rome; Italy

Added: 2006-02-09

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Porta San Paolo, Wallpaper Edition

A verison of the Porta San Paolo castle gate picture cropped so it fits on a computer desktop as a background image.

Keywords: wallpaper, backgrounds, castles, entrances, colour

Places shown: Rome; Italy

Added: 2006-06-06

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Porta San Paolo

p. 135. Porta San Paolo

Gate of St. Paul.

Keywords: arches, carts, colour

Places shown: Rome; Italy

Added: 2005-12-29

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Cloisters of the Lateran

p. 153. Cloisters of the Lateran

See the entry in the Catholic Encyclopedia for more information.

Keywords: arches, villas, lions, interiors, colour

Places shown: Rome; Italy

Added: 2005-12-29

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Campanile and Façade of S S. Giovanni e Paulo

p. 103. Campanile and Façade of S S. Giovanni e Paulo

[bell-tower of Staint John and Saint Paul, Rome.]

Keywords: towers, villas, people, churches, colour

Places shown: Rome; Italy

Added: 2005-12-29

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p. 161. Arch of Severus, Column of Phocas and S. Martina

“The great Pontiff [Pope Gregory the Great] died in 604. Four years later a fine Corinthian pillar, taken froms ome ancient building, was erected in the Forum [in Rome] to commemorate the worst of all [...]

Keywords: columns, ruins, pillars, roman remains, temples, colour

Places shown: Rome; Italy

Added: 2005-12-29

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43.—From Colosseum to Capitol.

This is a fold-out map of Rome (or, a plan of part of Rome, I should say) between pages 40 and 41. The text printed under the map is as follows: 1. Temple of Romulus. 2. Temple of the Sacred City (now [...]

Keywords: maps, plans, roman remains, greyscale

Places shown: Rome; Italy

Added: 2005-12-29

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