All things associated with Rome, the heart of a vast and influential empire. These objects reflect the city’s legacy in governance, engineering, and culture.
This elegant, fragmentary venus piece captures the graceful contrapposto pose and idealized nude female form characteristic of classical Greek sculpture, specifically inspired by Praxiteles's renowned Aphrodite of Knidos (ca. 350 BCE).
In Roman art, “barbarians” were a recurring motif used to define Roman identity through contrast. Clothing such as trousers (braccae), beards, long hair, and the soft conical Phrygian cap marked figures as foreign and non-Roman.
An oil painting from 1839, depicting ancient Rome and Agrippina’s return with Germanicus’s ashes, arranged with a moonlit sky and Roman architecture.