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The Great Fire of Rome (Latin: incendium magnum Romae) began on the 19th of July 64 AD. [1] The fire started in the merchant shops around Rome's chariot stadium, Circus Maximus . After six days, the fire was brought under control, but before the damage could be assessed, the fire reignited and burned for another three days.
The Course of Empire is a series of five paintings created by the English-born American painter Thomas Cole between 1833 and 1836, and now in the collection of the New-York Historical Society. The series depicts the growth and fall of an imaginary city, situated on the lower end of a river valley, near its meeting with a bay of the sea.
It depicts a group of Early Christian martyrs who are about to be burned alive as the alleged perpetrators of the Great Fire of Rome, during the reign of emperor Nero in 64 AD. People from many different social spheres, including the emperor himself, are present to watch the burning, which takes place in front of the Domus Aurea .
A controversial painting of outgoing President Obama may soon hang in Donald Trump's White House.. Utah artist Jon McNaughton released a work entitled The Forgotten Man in 2010, which displays a ...
The claim: Trump said the US, Italy have been allies ‘since the time of ancient Rome’ A Dec. 19 Facebook post (direct link, archive link) includes an image showing a woman seated behind ...
One of the pictures, taken by Evan Vucci of the Associated Press on July 13, 2024, during an attempted assassination of Donald Trump.. On July 13, 2024, Evan Vucci, an American photojournalist, captured a series of photographs of Donald Trump—then a former president of the United States and the presumptive nominee of the Republican Party in the 2024 presidential election—raising his right ...
The Master Drone (Italian: Il Pa-Drone), popularly referred to as God Emperor Trump, was a 65-foot (20-metre) papier-mâché sculpture and float depicting Donald Trump, the president of the United States, dressed as the fictional God Emperor of Mankind from the Warhammer 40,000 miniature war game franchise.
The National Portrait Gallery partnered with the Michael Jackson Estate to produce the exhibition. Dr. Nicholas Cullinan is the show's director. Private collectors from around the world loaned the art pieces for the show, which also included new works made especially for Michael Jackson: On the Wall. [3] [4]