Items in or near Rome (results page 1)

Front Cover, Fabiola Fabiola, 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 2 Die 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: Pantheon Die 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 Castle La Civilizacion 3 (1881)

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

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 Tiber Rome (1905)

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

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 version Rome (1905)

A version of the painting ofSt. Peter’s Rome from the River Tibercropped 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 Sacrifice Popular 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 castebecause the heads of each house were also the priests of the fam [...]

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 Callistus Rome (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 SS. [...]

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 Paulo Mediaeval 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 Paolo Mediaeval 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, Subiaco Rome (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 Lateran Mediaeval Rome (1901)

p. 153. Cloisters of the Lateran
See the entry in theCatholic Encyclopediafor more information.

Keywords: arches, villas, lions, interiors, colour

Places shown: Rome; Italy

Added: 2003-04-16

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Porta San Paolo Rome (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 Edition Rome (1905)

A verison of thePorta San Paolocastle 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. Martina Mediaeval 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 Storm Rome (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 amphitheatres [...]

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 Animals Popular 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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Cloisters in Santa Scholastica, Subiaco Venice (1907)

One of the three cloisters in this Benedictine monastery; it was built by Abbot Lando in 1235, and is decorated on the vault with mosaic work by the Cosmati. See page 36 and interleaf, page 82.Page 8 [...]

Keywords: cloisters, interiors, sunlight, people, windows, pillars, colour, wallpaper, backgrounds

Places shown: Subiaco; San Lorenzo; Rome; Italy

Added: 2014-08-10

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