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COVERED COUCH

Detail, The Aldobrandini Wedding From a villa in Rome Vatican Library, Rome The bride and Venus sit on this high bed which requires a footstool. It has a mattress and tasseled coverlet....

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ARCH OF TITUS

Forum Romanum Rome l The ceiling of the arch is coffered and the famous reliefs of the victory in Jerusalem line the inside of the passages....

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Detail, RELIEFS

Trajan's Column Rome 114 The continuous three and a half foot spiral band of reliefs is more than 600 feet long. Carved on it are over 2,500 figures....

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MARITIME THEATRE

Hadrian's Villa Tivoli 118-125 The Maritime Theatre (Teatro Marittimo) was Hadrian's circular island retreat. It was surrounded by a canal and a colonnaded portico and a high wall screened it off from the rest of the villa. The land was connected to the villa by two drawbridges. In the Theatre full scale miltary battles could be faught as a form o...

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HOUSE OF CUPID AND PSYCHE

Ostia c. 300 A statue of Amour and Psyche in a cubiculum or bedroom with a rich beautiful marble pattern. The house triclinium (dining room) was centrally heated....

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CELLA FRIEZE

Temple of Apollo Sosianus Rome c. 20 B.C. An elaborately carved scene and leaf pattern from the interior cella wall....

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TOMB OF THE BAKER EURYSACES

Rome 40-30 B.C. For this baker's tomb, the cylinders are typical bread ovens and the frieze depicts stages in bread making. Plebeian art was typical at the close of the Republic and at the beginning of the Empire....

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THRONE WITH TURNED LEGS

From a wall painting in a Villa at Boscoreale Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York Roman furniture is largely based on Greek models. In many instances, it is hard to tell if a piece is Roman or Hellenistic. But there are variations and some original forms. In this throne of a woman playing the kithara, the form is predominantly Greek, though the m...

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COUCH

Courtship of Venus and Mars House of Marcus Lucretius Fronto Pompeii c. 30 Venus sits on a covered klismos with curved legs, her feet on a footstool. The high couch dominates the picture. Mattress and pillow are covered. The pillow is supported by a scrolled headpiece....

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ARCH OF HADRIAN

Athens Shortly after 138 This unusual commemorative arch, built shortly after the death of Hadrian, combines Roman elements on the bottom with Greek elements on the top. Missing are the original sculptures which helped tie the arch together....

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