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Leech and à Beckett first collaborated on their The Comic History of England (1847–1848), for which Leech had produced broadly humorous etchings. [5] He created still finer illustrations to The Comic History of Rome (1851) [6] — which, particularly in its minor woodcuts, shows some exquisitely graceful touches, as witness the fair faces that rise from the surging water in his illustration ...
Asterix and the Roman Agent (French: La Zizanie, "Discord") is the fifteenth volume of the Asterix comic book series, by René Goscinny (stories) and Albert Uderzo (illustrations). It first appeared as a serial in Pilote magazine issues 531–552 in 1970 and was translated into English in 1972.
Iullus and his half-sisters returned to Rome with Octavia while Iullus' elder brother, Marcus Antonius Antyllus, remained with his father in Egypt. Antyllus was raised by Cleopatra beside his father's children by her, Ptolemy Philadelphus , Alexander Helios and Cleopatra Selene II , and Antyllus' stepbrother Caesarion .
Carinae was an area of ancient Rome. It was one of its most exclusive neighborhoods, where many of the senatorial class lived [ 1 ] . Florus described the Carinae as the " most celebrated part of the city " ( celeberrima pars urbis ).
A student at the École des beaux-arts de Paris in the studio of Gustave Boulanger, in 1883 he won the Grand Prix de Rome for painting for Oedipus curses his son Polynices, and became a pensionist at the Villa Médicis in Rome from 1883 to 1887. On 3 January 1888, he married Jeanne Guillemeteau, and they had two children, one son and one daughter.
From Ostia to Rome. On arrival in the port of Ostia, Rome's port at the mouth of the Tiber , the grain was off-loaded from its transport ship and loaded onto barges which were hauled up the river by animal or man power to the city of Rome, approximately 30 kilometres (19 mi) upriver. [ 40 ]
Illustration page from a 1499 book of Mirabilia urbis Romae. Mirabilia Urbis Romae (“Marvels of the City of Rome”) is a grouping of hundreds of manuscripts, incunabula, and books in Latin and modern European languages that describe notable built works and historic monuments in the city of Rome. [1]
Amanda Jacqueline Claridge FSA (1 September 1949 – 5 May 2022) was a British professor of Roman archaeology at Royal Holloway, University of London.Her research interests included "Roman archaeology, especially art, marble sculpture and the marble trade; Roman architecture and urbanism; topography and monuments of the city of Rome and Latium; Antiquarian studies in 16th and 17th century Rome."