Items in or near Rome (results page 1)

Front Cover, FabiolaFabiola, or, the Church of the Catacombs (1887)

The front cover of this book is pinted in black with gold foil on red cloth. There’s a picture of a man in a Roman gown and bare feet standing in an arena looking up at the emperor Diocletian (identif [...]

Keywords: book covers, colour, peace, christians, lions, sacrifice, coliseum, ancient rome

Places shown: Rome; Italy

Added: 2018-01-17

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Plate 1: Book I, Chapter 2Die Kirchliche Baukunst des Abendlandes (1884)

Figs. 1 – 13: Plans of various Roman buildings, including the Pantheon in Rome and the Baths of Caracalla.

Also a cross-section of the Palace of Augustus in Rome.

Keywords: architecture, diagrams, roman architecture, plans, temples, palaces, towers, backgrounds, wallpaper, colour

Places shown: Rome; Italy

Added: 2014-03-01

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Rome: PantheonDie Kirchliche Baukunst des Abendlandes (1884)

This architectural drawing of the Pantheon in Rome features intricate detail, drawings of the statues and columns with their capitals, a cut-away showing the passages inside the walls, and includes sh [...]

Keywords: architecture, diagrams, temples, roman remains, backgrounds, wallpaper, widescreen, domes, pillars, colour

Places shown: Rome; Italy

Added: 2014-03-05

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Murder in the CastleLa Civilizacion 3 (1881)

This engraving (i think) actually shows the discovery of the body of the Roman emperor Nero just after he had killed himself, but i am far from certain; the men’s swords are drawn. There are three men [...]

Keywords: death, discovery, accusation, people, men, weapons, soliders, interiors, castles, pillars, throne rooms, greyscale

Places shown: Rome; Italy

Added: 2023-02-02

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S. Peter’s and Castel Sant’ Angelo From the TiberRome (1905)

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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St. Peter’s Rome from the River Tiber: wallpaper versionRome (1905)

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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Head of a Roman House Offering SacrificePopular History of Rome, A (1886)

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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A Procession in the Catacomb of CallistusRome (1905)

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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43.—From Colosseum to Capitol.Mediaeval Rome (1901)

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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The Columbarium.South by East: Notes of Travel in Southern Europe (1877)

It is a funeral procession: the mourners walk in line down the steps and into the columbarium where the ashes of the dead will be placed. The chamber is lit by torches carried by mourners and also by [...]

Keywords: death, burial, interiors, gloomy, roman remains, spooky, people, music, greyscale

Places shown: Rome; Italy

Added: 2012-05-29

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Campanile and Façade of S S. Giovanni e PauloMediaeval Rome (1901)

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, greyscale

Places shown: Rome; Italy

Added: 2018-03-01

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Porta San PaoloMediaeval Rome (1901)

p. 135. Porta San Paolo
Gate of St. Paul.

Keywords: arches, carts, colour

Places shown: Rome; Italy

Added: 2003-04-30

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Chapel of San Lorenzo at S. Benedict’s, SubiacoRome (1905)

This painting by Alberto Pisa shows the inside of the upper church of Sacro Speco, at the Benedictine monastery at Subiaco, near Rome, in Italy. The frescoes (wall-paintings) are from the fourteenth [...]

Keywords: interiors, frescoes, art, chapels, churches, shrines, religion, colour

Places shown: Subiaco; Rome; Italy

Added: 2011-02-27

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Cloisters of the LateranMediaeval Rome (1901)

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: 2003-04-16

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Fig 36. — A staircase of the catacombsFabiola, or, the Church of the Catacombs (1887)

The Catacombs of Rome, said to have been used by early Christians to hide from persecution. Looking from within a tall tunnel with an arched roof towards the steps up and presumably out, into the ligh [...]

Keywords: catacombs, staircases, stairway to heaven, caves, corridors, graves, tombs, religion, christianity, roman remains, interiors, spooky, death, graveyards, tombs, greyscale

Places shown: Rome; Italy

Added: 2025-04-09

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Porta San PaoloRome (1905)

“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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Porta San Paolo, Wallpaper EditionRome (1905)

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: 2006-06-05

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p. 161. Arch of Severus, Column of Phocas and S. MartinaMediaeval Rome (1901)

“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: 2003-04-16

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The Colosseum in a StormRome (1905)

Dark and broody skies over one of the world’s most famous landmarks in this painting by Alberto Pisa. The writer in the extract that follows appears to be unaware that the Greeks also had amphitheatre [...]

Keywords: roman remains, storms, art, paintings, ruins, buildings, wallpaper, backgrounds, colour

Places shown: Rome; Italy

Added: 2015-10-03

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Combat of Gladiators with Wild AnimalsPopular History of Rome, A (1886)

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, slaves, slavery, greyscale

Places shown: Rome

Added: 2007-09-03

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