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Restoration drawing of the SE side of the Arch (Stuart and Revett). Hadrian's Arch in Athens, with the Acropolis seen in the background. 3/4 view Details of the lower level. The central projecting pediment of the upper level. The entire monument is made of Pentelic marble, from Mt. Pentelikon, 18.2 km northeast of the arch.
The Officers of the St Adrian Militia Company in 1633 This 18th-century copy by Wybrand Hendriks shows how much darker the painting has become over the centuries.. The Officers of the St Adrian Militia Company in 1633 refers to the second schutterstuk painted by Frans Hals for the Cluveniers, St. Adrian, or St. Hadrian civic guard of Haarlem, in 1633, and today considered one of the main ...
He had become the favourite of Hadrian by 128, when he was taken on a tour of the Roman Empire as part of Hadrian's personal retinue. [6] Antinous accompanied Hadrian during his attendance of the annual Eleusinian Mysteries in Athens , and was with him when he killed the Marousian lion in Libya , an event highly publicised by the Emperor.
Arch of Glanum: 10–25 AD Saint-Rémy-de-Provence: France: Glanum: Arch of Germanicus: 18–19 AD Saintes: France: Mediolanum Santonum: Arch of Hadrian: 131–132 AD Athens: Greece: Athína, Athenae Arch of Galerius: 298–299 AD Thessaloniki: Greece: Thessaloníkē Arch of Trajan: 113 AD Ancona: Italy: Ancona Arch of Augustus: 25 BC Aosta: Italy
Hadrian's Arch in central Athens, Greece. [3] Hadrian's admiration for Greece materialised in such projects ordered during his reign. Publius Aelius Hadrianus was born on 24 January 76, in Italica (modern Santiponce, near Seville), a Roman town founded by Italic settlers in the province of Hispania Baetica during the Second Punic War at the initiative of Scipio Africanus; Hadrian's branch of ...
The Arch of Portugal (also referred to as the Arch of Hadrian, the Arch of Tropholi, the Arch of Tripoli or the Arch of Octavian) was an arch of Rome, situated on the ancient via Lata (now the via del Corso), just before its intersection with the via della Vite. [1]
Sean Parker persuaded artist David Choe to take stock instead of cash for painting the walls of Facebook's first office. Now that stock is worth $200 million. This exchange happened back in 2005 ...
Antinous was the Greek lover to the Roman emperor Hadrian in the second century CE. [5] Often referenced to as Hadrian's favorite, [2] [4] or more affectionately Hadrian's boyfriend, [5] Antinous was born in Bithynium 110 CE and is speculated to have drowned in the river Nile before his twentieth birthday in 130 CE. [6]