When.com Web Search

Search results

  1. Results From The WOW.Com Content Network
  2. Nero's Torches - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nero's_Torches

    The painting was first exhibited in 1876 at the Accademia di San Luca in Rome. It went on to tour Europe with stops in Vienna, Munich, Prague, Lviv, Berlin, Saint Petersburg, Poznań, Paris and London. It was met with critical acclaim by masters of academic art such as Hans Makart and Lawrence Alma-Tadema. [3]

  3. Great Fire of Rome - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Fire_of_Rome

    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.

  4. Glossary of ancient Roman culture - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glossary_of_ancient_Roman...

    A circular work of art, either a painting or a sculpture. trapezophoros A marble table support for a large tabletop that probably stood in the atrium of a Roman house. Typical carvings include vegetal designs similar to those seen on public monuments of the Augustan age between torsoes of winged griffins. See also cartibulum. triclinium. Also ...

  5. Sacred fire of Vesta - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sacred_fire_of_Vesta

    The sacred fire of Vesta was a sacred eternal flame in ancient Rome.The Vestal Virgins, originally numbering two, later four, and eventually six, were selected by lot and served for thirty years, tending the holy fire and performing other rituals connected to domestic life—among them were the ritual sweeping of the temple on June 15 and the preparation of food for certain festivals.

  6. The Fire in the Borgo - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Fire_in_the_Borgo

    The Fire in the Borgo is a painting created by the workshop of the Italian Renaissance artist Raphael between 1514 and 1517. [1] Though it is assumed that Raphael did make the designs for the complex composition, the fresco was most likely painted by his assistant Giulio Romano .

  7. Painting in ancient Rome - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Painting_in_ancient_Rome

    Roman fresco from the Tomb of Esquilino, c. 300-280 B.C. As with the other arts, the art of painting in Ancient Rome was indebted to its Greek antecedents. In archaic times, when Rome was still under Etruscan influence, they shared a linear style learned from the Ionian Greeks of the Archaic period, showing scenes from Greek mythology, daily life, funeral games, banquet scenes with musicians ...

  8. Roman art - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roman_art

    The art of Ancient Rome, and the territories of its Republic and later Empire, includes architecture, painting, sculpture and mosaic work.Luxury objects in metal-work, gem engraving, ivory carvings, and glass are sometimes considered to be minor forms of Roman art, [1] although they were not considered as such at the time.

  9. Greek fire - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greek_fire

    Usage of the term "Greek fire" has been general in English and most other languages since the Crusades. Original Byzantine sources called the substance a variety of names, such as "sea fire" (Medieval Greek: πῦρ θαλάσσιον pŷr thalássion), "Roman fire" (πῦρ ῥωμαϊκόν pŷr rhōmaïkón), "war fire" (πολεμικὸν πῦρ polemikòn pŷr), "liquid fire ...