EditorialGladiatorial table. 2nd century AD. Inscription of a speech by Marcus Aurelius before the Senate in which recommends lowering the prices of gladiatorial games and laments the benefits of entrepreneurs and what they owe in taxes. Bronze. From Italica (S...
EditorialRelief with?Gladiators, ca. 2nd century A.D., Marble, 122.6 ? 80.2 ? 6.2 cm (48 1/4 ? 31 9/16 ? 2 7/16?in.), Gladiatorial games originated as funerary rites in which the deceased was celebrated through physical competitions. For this reason, relief dep...
EditorialPaintings bullfighting and gladiatorial fight, Fig. 117, painting of an animal fight on the parapet wall of the arena, fig. 118, painting by gladiators, p. 141, 1856, Johannes Overbeck: Pompeji in seinen Geb?uden, Alterth?mern und Kunstwerken [...]. Le...
EditorialGladiatorial table. 2nd century AD. Inscription of a speech by Marcus Aurelius before the Senate in which recommends lowering the prices of gladiatorial games and laments the benefits of entrepreneurs and what they owe in taxes. Bronze. From Italica (S...
EditorialGladiatorial table. 2nd century AD. Inscription of a speech by Marcus Aurelius before the Senate in which recommends lowering the prices of gladiatorial games and laments the benefits of entrepreneurs and what they owe in taxes. Bronze. From Italica (S...
EditorialMarble relief fragment with gladiators, Imperial, 1st?3rd century A.D., Roman, Marble, H. 14 in (35.6 cm); width 13 3/4 in (34.9 cm); depth 4 1/8 in (10.5 cm), Stone Sculpture, Gladiatorial shows were essentially a Roman phenomenon, but their popularit...
EditorialTerracotta lamp with gladiatorial equipment, Early Imperial, ca. A.D. 40?80, Roman, Cypriot, Terracotta; mold-made, 15/16 x 3 1/2 in. (2.4 x 8.9 cm), Terracottas, On discus, frieze comprising two shields at bottom behind nozzle, two swords, one straigh...
EditorialTerracotta lamp with gladiatorial equipment, Early Imperial, ca. A.D. 40?100, Roman, Cypriot, Terracotta, Overall: 1 x 3 1/4 in. (2.5 x 8.3 cm), Terracottas, On discus, frieze comprising two rectangular shields at bottom behind nozzle, two swords, one ...
EditorialTerracotta lamp with gladiatorial equipment, Early Imperial, Augustan, late 1st century B.C.?early 1st century A.D., Roman, Terracotta; mold-made, Overall: 1 1/8 x 3 1/2 in. (2.9 x 8.9 cm), Terracottas, On discus, two pairs of greaves and two swords, o...
EditorialTerracotta lamp with gladiatorial equipment, Early Imperial, Julio-Claudian, 1st half of 1st century A.D., Roman, Cypriot, Terracotta; mold-made, Overall: 1 1/4 x 4 in. (3.2 x 10.2 cm), Terracottas, On discus, frieze comprising cuirass at bottom behind...
EditorialHoly Telemachus of Rome interrupts a gladiatorial combat, and the stoning of Saint Telemachus, Jan Luyken, Jacobus van Hardenberg, Barent Visscher, 1701.
EditorialTerracotta figurines of two gladiators, Roman, 1st-2nd CE. The distinctive small shields of this pair of gladiotors show that the duel is between two heavily-armed combatants, a hoplomachus with a Greek circular shield and a Thraex, with a thracian sma...