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Statue of the Emperor Tiberius showing a draped toga of the 1st century AD. The toga (/ ˈ t oʊ ɡ ə /, Classical Latin: [ˈt̪ɔ.ɡa]), a distinctive garment of Ancient Rome, was a roughly semicircular cloth, between 12 and 20 feet (3.7 and 6.1 m) in length, draped over the shoulders and around the body.
Roman clad in toga, from 1891 Dictionary of Classical Antiquities. From w:en:Image:Toga1.png . This is a faithful photographic reproduction of a two-dimensional, public domain work of art.
The toga was considered Rome's "national costume," privileged to Roman citizens but for day-to-day activities most Romans preferred more casual, practical and comfortable clothing; the tunic, in various forms, was the basic garment for all classes, both sexes and most occupations. It was usually made of linen, and was augmented as necessary ...
Date/Time Thumbnail Dimensions User Comment; current: 14:38, 23 August 2008: 535 × 556 (654 KB): LadyofHats {{Information |Description=svg from a roman statue (Image:August Labicana Massimo Inv56230.jpg together with a diagram on how to wear a toga |Source=Own work by LadyofHats |Date=23 aogust 2008 |Author=[[User:LadyofHats|LadyofHats]
Bronze monument to Francis II, the last Holy Roman emperor, wearing a corona triumphalis and toga. The honours included the right to wear triumphal dress in public: the corona triumphalis (a gold coronet fashioned in the shape of a laurel wreath with dangling gold ribbons); an ivory baton; the tunica palmata (a tunic embroidered with palm-leaves); and the toga picta ("painted toga"), a toga ...
Trabea (pl.: trabeae) is the name of various pieces of Roman clothing. A distinct feature of all trabeae was their color – usually red or purple.They were formed like a toga and possibly in some cases like a mantle and worn by more distinguished members of Roman society.
Picture of an equestrian dressed in his rank toga and tunic, the angusticlavia. In ancient Rome, an angusticlavia, angusticlavus or angustus clavus was a narrow-strip tunic (tunica) with two narrow vertical Tyrian purple stripes (clavi, singular clavus). The tunic was typically worn under the toga with the right side stripe visible. [1]
Togatus Barberini is a Roman marble sculpture from around the first-century AD [1] that depicts a full-body figure, referred to as a togatus, holding the heads of deceased ancestors in either hand. [2] It is housed in the Centrale Montemartini in Rome, Italy (formerly in the Capitoline Museums). [1]