The exhibition features sixty-five wall paintings, sculptures, mosaics, and cameo glass and silver vessels created in Roman Italy between 100 BC and AD 250.

The landscape the Romans found was one of cultivated fields and pastures, scattered farmsteads and settlements, and surviving islands of managed woodland.

Feb 9, 2023 · This groundbreaking volume explores the intimate connections between these works and ancient Romans' social, political and religious lives.

A groundbreaking ecocritical study that examines how ideas about the natural and built environment informed architectural and decorative trends of the Roman ...

Explores the fascinating resonances of landscape scenes as reflections of Roman social and political developments, including the growth of the Empire

The essays explore landscapes that decorated urban houses and tombs in Rome, Pompeii and Herculaneum and sumptuous coastal villas on the Bay of Naples, as well ...

Jul 9, 2023 · Among the conspicuous inhabitants are nature divinities like Diana, but also Hecate, Priapus, and Dionysus. A large category, well represented ...

Rome was built on a defensible hill that dominated the last downstream, high-banked river crossing where traverse of the Tiber was facilitated by a midstream ...

Featuring more than 100 works, the exhibition Rome: Nature and the Ideal. Landscapes 1600-1650 is exhibited at the Museo del Prado after its showing at the ...