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The Colosseum from the Campo Vaccino is an 1822 landscape painting by the English artist Charles Lock Eastlake. [1] It depicts a view of the Colosseum in Rome viewed from the Palatine Hill which along with the Roman Forum was known at the time as the Campo Vaccino, due to its use as an enclosure for cattle brought for the city's markets.
The Colosseum (/ ˌ k ɒ l ə ˈ s iː ə m / KOL-ə-SEE-əm; Italian: Colosseo [kolosˈsɛːo], ultimately from Ancient Greek word "kolossos" meaning a large statue or giant) is an elliptical amphitheatre in the centre of the city of Rome, Italy, just east of the Roman Forum. It is the largest ancient amphitheatre ever built, and is still the ...
A View through Three of the North-Western Arches of the Third Storey of the Coliseum is a painting by the Danish painter C. W. Eckersberg.It was painted in 1815 or 1816 when Eckersberg sojourned in Rome, painting a series of works of the ancient ruins of the city.
The Colosseum opened in the year 80 A.D. and was the largest building in Rome at that time. The stadium held gladiator games where warriors would battle until their death, but those games were ...
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When orders are superposed one above another, as they are at the Colosseum, the natural progression is from sturdiest and plainest (Doric) at the bottom, to slenderest and richest (Corinthian) at the top. The Colosseum's topmost tier has an unusual order that came to be known as the Composite order during the 16th century.
The thumbs-down gesture in the painting is given by spectators at the Colosseum, including the Vestals, to the victorious murmillo, while the defeated retiarius raises two fingers to plead for mercy. The painting was an inspiration for the 2000 film Gladiator , where Commodus holds out a raised thumb to spare the film's hero, Maximus .
Mescal wasn’t working the day everything stopped, but says “people were sitting in makeup chairs” when the call came — at around 8 a.m. local time — and the Colosseum gates slammed down.