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Small altar with dedication.
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Small altar with dedication.

Niche from a nymphaeum, glass paste. From the House of the Skeleton, Herculaneum III,3 Inv.10008
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Niche from a nymphaeum, glass paste. From the House of the Sk...

Ceremony of the cult of Isis; priests with typical fringed tunics holding sistra; a priest fans the flames on a garlanded altar. Two sacred ibis-birds in the foreground. From Herculaneum. Fourth style, 80 x 85 cm Inv. 8924
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Ceremony of the cult of Isis; priests with typical fringed tunics holding s...

Marble altar from the temple of Vespasian (69-79 CE). The side towards the Forum shows a sacrificial scene. See also 10-04-04-27.
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Marble altar from the temple of Vespasian (69-79 CE). The side towards the For...

Altar of Vespasian, Temple of Vespasian (69-79 CE), Pompeii. The relief shows a sacrificial scene: the sacrificer and his aide bring the sacrificial bull, while the priest, a veil over his head, pours the libation over a tripod.
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Altar of Vespasian, Temple of Vespasian (69-79 CE), Pompeii. The relief show...

Lararium, small niche for "lares", the household gods. Pompeii, 1st CE
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Lararium, small niche for "lares", the household gods. Pompeii, 1st CE

In the light of a candle,three men study a small replica of the Borghese gladiator. Around 1765 Canvas, 101 x 122 cm
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In the light of a candle,three men study a small replica of the Borghese gladia...

The dying Seneca.Rubens owned a bust of Seneca,a Roman marble copy of a Hellenistic bronze of the 2nd century BCE which the painter bought in Italy in 1608.The Seneca portrait was painted for his friend,the printer Moretus. Wood,65 x 51 cm
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The dying Seneca.Rubens owned a bust of Seneca,a Roman marble copy of a Helleni...

The tomb of Seneca.For his portrait of the philosopher and teacher of Emperor Nero,Le Brun could have used a drawing or engraving of the bust of the "Pseudo-Seneca" found at the Villa dei papiri in Herculanum. Canvas, 37 x 48 cm R.F.1998-2
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The tomb of Seneca.For his portrait of the philosopher and teacher of Emperor N...

A class in a painters' academy around a plaster cast of the "nymph with shell".In the right background the "gladiator Borghese". Canvas, 127 x 101 cm Inv. B 1937.1.66
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A class in a painters' academy around a plaster cast of the "nymph with shell...

Charles Townley and his friends in Townley's gallery of sculptures in Park Street,Westminster.All sculptures can be identified,most of them are now in the British Museum.Left foreground:nymph with shell and the discus- thrower.Townley right foreground.Canvas,127 x 101 cm
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Charles Townley and his friends in Townley's gallery of sculptures in Park St...

Landscape with antique ruins.In a fantastic scenery of Roman ruins, students and admirers measure and draw statues and columns.The inscription cites Ovid:"O time, swallower of things, and you,envious old age,you have destroyed all."Canvas,96 x 141,5 cm G 740
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Landscape with antique ruins.In a fantastic scenery of Roman ruins, students an...