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  • Cutout of a torse from an ancient roman statue draped richly in a toga, placed on a plain green background as an illustration.
    Ancient Roman fashion ESP201210--005...jpg
  • Elegantly draped marble torsos in the Museo Nacional de Arte Roman, Merida
    Ancient Roman fashion statements.jpg
  • Elegantly draped marble torsos in the Museo Nacional de Arte Roman, Merida, three different ones laid on a plain blue background as "Ancient Roman Fashion Statements."
    Ancient Roman fashion ESP201210.jpg
  • Blank eyed theatrical mask on display in the Museo Nacional de Arte Romano, Merida, Spain.  It wears a Phrygian cap, which in the western provinces of the Roman Empire came to signify freedom and the pursuit of liberty, perhaps through a confusion with the pileus, the felt cap of manumitted (emancipated) slaves of ancient Rome.
    Ancient Roman theatrical mask ESP201...jpg
  • Open-eyed Roman theatrical mask on display at the Merida Archaeological Museum, Spain
    Roman_theater_mask_ESP201210--0045.jpg
  • Rebuilt two storey skena or scene or scaena frons building of the Roman theater at Merida, built 16-15 BC by Vipsanius Agrippa, then consul.  White marble columns stand out in front of a rubble masonry and brick wall behind them.
    Merida_Roman_theater_scene_ESP201210...jpg
  • Elegantly draped marble torsos of the 1st and 2d centuries AD in the Museo Nacional de Arte Roman, Merida; Composite of three draped figures on purple background.
    Ancient_Roman_fashion_statements_ESP...jpg
  • Frontal view of an elaborately draped Roman torso in marble, making a design of swirls and angles.
    Ancient_Roman_marble_torso_drapery_E...jpg
  • Museo Nazionale de Roma, Palazzo Massimo, ancient Roman bronze statue of a seated boxer.  He looks wearily over his shoulder as though someone behind him had just spoken to him.
    Ancient Roman boxer ITA200901--1124-...jpg
  • View of the remains of the ancient Roman Aqueduct at Los Milagros, Merida, Spain.  One woman tourist walks along the bottom of the structure.  Masonry pillars with brick in horizontal bands and arches.
    Merida_Roman_Aqueduct_ESP201210--002...jpg
  • Ostia Antica.  Closeup of an ancient Roman theatrical mask carved in stone; Corinthian pillar and umbrella pines behind.  Adjoins theater at Ostia.
    Ostia Antica theater mask ITA200901-...jpg
  • Ancient Roman bridge over the Guadiana River, Merida, Spain.  It has been kept in good repair and traffic still uses it. Its perfect hemicycles are perfectly reflected in the river as a mirror.
    Merida_bridge_ESP201210--0069.jpg
  • Overview of the Roman forum from the overlook at the back of the Capitoline Museum, looking through an arched opening and over a protective barrier.
    Forum-Rome_ITA200901-4857.jpg
  • View of a room in the ancient Roman sanitarium at Almendinilla with monochrome floor mosaics with symmetrical curvelinear designs.
    Almenadilla_floor-mosaic-ESP201210--...jpg
  • Marble fragment from an ancient Roman sculpture: a beautifully wrought hand gently grasping a length of rope (?)
    Marble_hand_grasping_ESP201210--0356.jpg
  • Volubilis, ancient Roman provincial city in Morocco. Mosaic details from the "House of Orpheus."   Head of a woman, possibly the goddess Hera who made trouble for Hercules.  She looks a bit grim.
    Volubilis_mosaics_in_situ_Moroccan_M...jpg
  • Remaining pillars of the Roman aqueduct at Merida, Spain.  Two are crowned with stork nests. Ashlar masonry with horizontal narrow bands of red brick.
    Merida_Aqueduct_ESP201210--0020.jpg
  • Overview of the Roman Forum from the vantage point at the back of the Capitoline Museum.  Visible are the Arch of Septimus Severus on the left, Column of Phocas, Basilica Julia, Temple of Castor and Pollux, Sacred Way, and Arch of Titus gleaming in the distance.
    Forum-Rome_ITA200901-4859.jpg
  • Ancient Roman mosaic panel with fish, eels, and three fishermen in a rowboat using a net.
    Complutum_mosaic_ESP2201210--4022.jpg
  • Detail of the floor mosaic in the House of Hippolytus, Complutum, near Alcala de Henares, Spain.  An unusual provincial Roman design with varied motifs in monochrome (black, white, brown) with touches of red.
    Complutum_mosaic_ESP2201210--4016.jpg
  • San Clemente, ancient Roman street level underneath the later churches built over it.
    San-Clemente-Rome_ITA200901--0691-2.jpg
  • Volubilis, provincial Roman city in Morocco with many floor mosaics still in situ. Mosaic details from the "House of Orpheus."  Medallion showing Hercules leading the Cretan Bull (7th labor) -- the bull seeming quite tame and small.  Awkward provincial style.
    Volubilis_mosaics_in_situ_Moroccan_M...jpg
  • Volubilis, ancient Roman provincial city with many floor mosiacs still in situ. Mosaic details from the "House of Orpheus."  Medallion showing Hercules with the Stymphalian Birds (6th labor).  Somewhat coarse provincial style.
    Volubilis_mosaics_in_situ_Moroccan_M...jpg
  • Roman Forum, looking along the main street (Via Sacra)  toward the Arch of Titus.
    Forum-Rome_ITA200901--0510.jpg
  • Winged foot of an ancient Roman statue of Mercury.  Detail of a sculpture in the Aarchaeological Museum of Sevilla, Spain.
    Winged foot ESP201210--0357 (1).jpg
  • Detail of a house facade in Ayvalik showing pilaster topped by a re-used Roman Corinthian capital.  Layers of old paint in green, yellow, purple, orange, and blue, in a multicolored but shabby composition.  Recent-seeming house number on a metal plaque suggests it is occupied.
    Ayvalik TUR199710-17.jpg
  • Ostia Antica. Closeup of a theatrical mask carved in stone, showing angry expression.
    Roman_theatrical_mask_ITA200901--103...jpg
  • Square panel set in a floral rinceau border, a female head on each side representing the seasons.  In the panel, a man spears an attacking boar under a spiky tree.
    Ancient_Roman_hunter_boar_ESP201210-...jpg
  • Winged_foot_ancient_Roman_ESP201210-...jpg
  • Museo Nazionale de Roma, Palazzo Massimo, statue of a seated boxer, bronze.  Partial view, from the hips up, the head turned toward the camera.  The hands are tightly wrapped; facial expression one of polite weariness as he turns his head to answer someone.
    Statue_bronze_wrestler_Rome_ITA20090...jpg
  • Ostia Antica, ruins of Republican era temple of Heracles.  Statue of C. Cartilius Poplicola on the temple platform.  Late afternoon sun, slanted shadows.
    Ostia_Antica_ITA200901--1044.jpg
  • Looking up at the coffers, each carved with miniature heads and rosettes surrounded by egg-and-dart motifs.
    Split-Croatia-HRV200606-133.jpg
  • Ostia Antica. Headless statue, wearing a toga, along the street; umbrella pine tree behind it.
    Ostia_Antica_ITA200901--1028.jpg
  • Porphyry statue of the four emperors clutch each other in the snow from their position on the southwest corner of the cathedral of St. Mark's, Venice, with a woman and a child exiting the cathedral behind them, and a Gothic Virgin and Child statue beside the door jamb.  Snow and slush on the ground.  Juxtaposition of two very different styles of figure sculpture to scale and real people.
    tetrarchs-statue-Venezia_ITA200403-5...jpg
  • across the Guadalquivir River
    ESP201210--0124.jpg
  • Ostia Antica.  Closeup of a theatrical mask carved in stone; Corinthian pillar and umbrella pines behind.  Mask's mouth is wide open as though screaming.
    Ostia_Antica_ITA200901--1034-2.jpg
  • Statue of Dying (or wounded) Gaul in the Capitoline Museum, detail of hand pressing on his thigh
    Statue_Dying_Gaul_Rome_ITA200901--04...jpg
  • Imperial Forum from the Capitoline looking toward the Arch of Titus.
    Forum_Rome_ITA200901--0453.jpg
  • Complutum_ESP201210--4027.jpg
  • Standing portrait of a Spanish tour leader on his cell phone organizing the next step of the day's scheduled tour.
    Spanish-man-mobile-full-length-ESP22...jpg
  • Statue of Dying Gaul in the Capitoline Museum, detail of hand on thigh
    Marble hand ITA200901--0461.jpg
  • Originally built as a mausoleum for Diocletian at the end of the 3rd century,the structure was taken over and became a Cathedral for St. Domnius.
    Split-Croatia-HRV200606-109.jpg
  • Ostia Antica. Floor mosaic propped up against a wall.
    Ostia_Antica_ITA200901--1043.jpg
  • The Tetrarchs, porphyry sculptures on wall of San Marco, Venice. Close up of two heads and arms, the facial expression of each a blank stare.  Their posture of an embrace was meant to convey that the four emperors would work as one.   The sculpture was taken from Constantinople during the 4th Crusade, in 1204, and installed on the southwest corner of the cathedral..
    Pair_tetrarchs_heads_Venezia_ITA2004...jpg
  • ESP201210--0360.jpg
  • ESP201210--0057.jpg
  • Laocoon sculpture, Vatican museum; detail of a head of a boy, one of Laocoon's sons, turned to the side and looking frightened as a snake curls over his upper arm.
    Laocoon son ITA200901--0295.jpg
  • Laocoon sculpture, Vatican museum, man in a khaki colored raincoat, balding, gray hair, seen from behind studying the statue.  He interacts with it.
    Laocoon viewer ITA200901--0292a.jpg
  • Relief sculpture of a dancing maenad in a procession, carved on a cylindrical base.  She holds a drum; her dress and drapery swirl joyfully about her.
    Dancing maenad ESP201210--0360.jpg
  • The audience section of the ancient theatre at Segesta, Sicily.  Bands of sunlit and shadowed stone make a design of curved parallels.
    Birthday card ITA200610-197.jpg
  • Ostia Antica. Three theatrical masks displayed on short pillars, two columns and umbrella pines behind them.
    Ostia_Antica_ITA200901--1033.jpg
  • Tivoli, Villa Adriana, Maritime Theatre.  Remains of the emperor's private study, on an islet surrounded by a moat.
    Villa_Adriana_ITA200901--0902.jpg
  • Small corte in Venice, off Calle Stella, in Canareggio.  Doorways to apartments evidently well maintained.  A new shrine to the Virgin Mary on one of the walls.
    Canareggio-corte-shrine-Venezia_ITA2...jpg
  • The Tetrarchs, porphyry sculptures on wall of San Marco, Venice. View of all four figures, each pair embracing.
    Porphyry_tetrarchs_Venezia_ITA200403...jpg
  • Laocoon sculpture, Vatican museum, man in a khaki colored raincoat, balding, gray hair, seen from behind studying the statue.
    Vatican_Rome_ITA200901--0292.jpg
  • The Tetrarchs, porphyry sculptures on wall of San Marco, Venice. Close up of two heads and arms, the facial expression of each a blank stare.  Their posture of an embrace was meant to convey that the four emperors would work as one.   The sculpture was taken from Constantinople during the 4th Crusade, in 1204, and installed on the southwest corner of the cathedral.
    Two Tetrarchs embracing ITA200403-32.jpg
  • Rome, Ara Pacis, detail of sculptured reliefs of white marble, restored.   A goddess sits amid a scene of fertility and prosperity with twins on her lap. Scholars have variously suggested that the goddess is Italia, Tellus (Earth), Venus, and Peace, though other views also circulate. Due to the widespread depiction around the sculpture of scenes of peace, and because the Altar is named "peace", the favored conclusion is that the goddess is Pax.
    Ara Pacis panel ITA200901--0495-2.jpg
  • Dying Gaul statue, detail of head and face
    Head of Dying Gaul statue ITA200901-...jpg
  • Relief of a dancing maenad on the base of a pillar in the Seville Archaeological Museum.
    dancing-maenad-ESP201210--0360.jpg
  • Gentle window light illumates the tender care with which the nun, in grey habit with black veil, draws a white altar cloth over the altar.  An undistinguished Mannerist painting of a saint, a donor, and God, serves as altarpiece.
    Korcula-Croatia-HRV200606-190.jpg
  • Small corte in Venice, off Calle Stella, in Canareggio.  Doorways to apartments evidently well maintained.  A new shrine to the Virgin Mary on one of the walls.
    Shrine-Venice-corte-ITA200403-9-2.jpg
  • Ostia Antica.  Theater, restored seats from behind the scene building ruins. Empty audience and cleared stage area so that summer performances can be played.
    Ostia_Antica_ITA200901--1037.jpg
  • Black and white mosaic floor of the so-called Baths of the Coachmen, Ostia Antica, shows a pair of mules drawing a carriage with 3 passengers, and a human - sea monster creature who wields a long staff.  This facility was a barracks and stopover place for the muleteers who drove the cabs back and forth between Ostia and Rome.
    Ostia_Antica_ITA200901--1029.jpg
  • Tivoli, Villa Adriana, view along the wall of the former atrium that sheltered after-dinner strollers from the sun or rain and ran alongside the pecile, or fish pond.
    Villa_Adriana_ITA200901--0893.jpg
  • Rome, Basilica of Constantine (begun by Maxentius).  Colosseum visible beyond through the arched openings; one of the vast arches of the main hall on the left of the image.
    Constantine-basilica-Forum-Rome_ITA2...jpg
  • ESP201210--0357 (1).jpg
  • Statue of Grgur Ninski - Gregory of Nin, full length, outside Diocletian's Palace in Split.  10th century bishop who introduced Croatian language, replacing Latin, in church services. Angle of view chosen to emphasize upraised finger and fanatical expression.
    Gregory-Nin-statue-HRV200606-135.jpg
  • Ostia Antica. Closeup of a theatrical mask carved in stone.
    Ostia_Antica_ITA200901--1035.jpg
  • Ostia Antica. Floor mosaic, black and white tesserae, mules drawing a cart filled with children, muleteer carrying whip, partial view of a human-sea monster creature.  Baths of the Coachmen.
    Ostia_Antica_ITA200901--1030.jpg
  • Three tourists (one on a mobile phone) near the base of the arch of Septimus Severus which bears a relief of three figures (captured slaves)
    Forum-Rome_ITA200901--0521.jpg
  • Relief head of a bearded and horned (?) man's head, on a pillar in the Roman forum, Zadar, Croatia
    ancient-Roman-mask-HRV200606-072.jpg
  • Ancient Roman dining couch as excavated at Almenadilla, near Cordoba.  The site known in Spain as Villa Romana de "el Ruedo." Appears to have been a sanitarium or hospice where sick people went to be cared for until death.
    Almenadilla_Roman-couch-ESP201210--2...jpg
  • Two guards outside Roman Senate building, one Carabinieri wearing plumed hat, the other regular army, also in uniform and holding an upright staff.
    Italy-military-guard-Rome_ITA200901-...jpg
  • "Umbilicus Urbis Romae" inscription on a marble  plaque fragment attached to the side of the ancient speakers' platform near the arch of Septimus Severus, Roman Forum.  ...
    Forum-Rome_ITA200901--0517.jpg
  • View across the partly reconstructed Roman amphitheater at Merida, Spain.
    Merida_amphitheater_ESP201210--0027.jpg
  • Gypsy male accordionist seated on a bench on the Roman bridge into Cordoba, Spain.  His bicycle leans against the wall. He plays his instrument for the camera, smiling.
    Gypsy-accordionist-bridge-Cordoba-ES...jpg
  • Ancient Roman mosaic wave design, found in Merida, Spain.
    mosaic_waves_border_design_ESP201210...jpg
  • The lion holds down a lamb in its front paws.  Behind, two men in Roman tunics, with an escutcheon between showing a bearded man's face, leaves and volutes on either side, crown and rosette above. One of a pair.
    Split-Croatia-lion-sculpture-HRV2006...jpg
  • Interior, views of the gallery showing arches, wooden roof, and re-used ancient Roman and Byzantine era column capitals.  Restored after Serbian assault damage during 1990s.
    Zadar-Donatus-interior-HRV200606-066.jpg
  • Interior, views of the gallery showing arches, wooden roof, and re-used ancient Roman and Byzantine era column capitals.  Restored after Serbian assault damage during 1990s.
    HRV200606-066.jpg
  • Interior, views of the gallery showing arches, wooden roof, and re-used ancient Roman and Byzantine era column capitals. Deconsecrated, now used for concerts.   Restored after Serbian bombardment 1991-1993.
    Zadar-Donatus-interior-HRV200606-067.jpg
  • Exterior of the little round church of St. Donatus, built early 9th century in Byzantine style, and its later bell tower, seen from across the Roman forum.
    Zadar-Donatus-_exterior_HRV200606-07...jpg
  • Santa Maria in Domnica, exterior, colonaded facade with Roman era carved marble boat in forecourt. Boat is an ancient offering incorporated into the 16th century fountain.  An unusual example of Renaissance adaptive reuse of ancient work.  Church portico by Sansovino 1513  main church is 9th century basilica with three apses, and lovely mosaics.  http://romanchurches.wikia.com/wiki/Santa_Maria_in_Domnica
    navicella-Rome_ITA200901--1275.jpg
  • Ancient paving stones of the main street (Via Sacra)  in the Roman Forum.  Close up, low angle of view.
    Forum-Rome_ITA200901--0523.jpg
  • The lion holds down a lamb in its front paws.  Behind, two men in Roman tunics, with an escutcheon between showing a bearded man's face, leaves and volutes on either side, crown above.  Lion's mouth is wide open as though roaring.  Stylized details of mane, ribs, and lams wool.
    Romanesque guardian lion HRV200606-1...TIF
  • Zadar: Church of St. Donatus, built 9th century, interior looking upward into the wooden dome.  The supporting columns are re-used Roman columns.
    Ambiguous_space_HRV200606-064.jpg
  • Roman Forum, Basilica of Constantine, seen beyond a grove of trees near the Arch of Titus, above which a pair of statues on top of Santa Francesca Romana's travertine façade (by Carlo Lambardi, 1615) seem to be floating on top of the tree branches.  Clear plain blue sky above.
    Constantine-basilica-Rome_ITA200901-...jpg
  • View of a medieval - Renaissance belltower in a residential area of Diocletian's Palace.  Medieval clock with Roman numerals around its circumference; bell in a loggia above; TV aerial visible from an adjoining residence.
    Split-Croatia-HRV200606-115.jpg
  • Trogir: small courtyard with arch, stairway, laundry hanging out to dry, and a motorbike.  Roman and medieval structures still in use as people clearly still live in them. Electric wires strung along the outside walls.
    Trogir-courtyard-streetscape--HRV200...jpg
  • Closeup of two hands, belonging to two different people, each gloved and holding a trowel, scraping away in rocky dirt in search of late Roman evidence in Yorkshire's Chapel House Wood.
    Archaeological_work_AR200607_03.jpg
  • Young Vietnamese woman kneeling in pryaer before a statue of the Goddess of Mercy (Quan Yin)  in a Central Vietnam village Buddhist pagoda.  She is seen from the back.  The statue of the goddess on the altar is dressed in white, with a halo, echoing in appearance the Virgin Mary in some Roman Catholic practice..
    Vietnamese_Goddess_of_Mercy_VTN20060...jpg
  • Yellow motorbike passing remains of an ancient Roman aquaduct, on the Viale delle Terme di Caracalla.
    Rome_cityscape_ITA200901--0705.jpg
  • Cat resident in Trajan's Markets area patrols Trajan's Forum.  Many ancient Roman sites are also cat sanctuaries.
    Trajans-market-Rome_ITA200901--0489.JPG
  • Beautiful white retriever poses willingly and obediently for the camera as his master looks on with approval.  On the Roman bridge into Cordoba, Spain.
    ESP201210--0117.jpg
  • Museo Nazionale de Roma, Palazzo Massimo, flying horse or unicorn, detail of a wall painting from an ancient Roman house.
    Rome_ITA200901--1139.jpg
  • Archaeological work entails learning from scraps of remains.   Major finds are rare.  Potsherds that have sifted to the surface can offer clues to what lies beneath.  Here, an archaeologist shows a sherd from a site currently being explored.  Its thickness indicates that it is not ancient Greek but more probably late Roman.
    Archaeology_potsherd_TUR199710-15.jpg
  • A Roman Catholic nun in grey habit and black veil draws a clean white altar cloth over the stone altar in the church of Sveti Mihovil in Korcula, Croatia.  The altarpiece is a mannerist painting by Domenico Maggiotto, 18th century, of the Trinity with two saints, one wearing a halo.  The nun concentrates on her task, which, even though a simple daily one, seems part of her spirituality.  No doubt she whispers a prayer as the cloth slides over the stone.
    Catholic_nun_altar_HRV200606-190.jpg
  • Bronze sculpture of boy with thorn, closeup of head and hand holding his foot
    Ancient Roman boy ITA200901--0449.jpg
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