EditorialThe Battle of Actium from The Story of Caesar and Cleopatra. After a design by Justus van Egmont (1601-1674); Woven at the workshop of Willem van Leefdael (1632-1688); Flanders, Brussels. Date: 1670-1690. Dimensions: 400.6 ? 359.5 cm (157 3/4 ? 141 1/2...
EditorialRoman relief from a commemorative monument of the Battle of Actium (31 BC). Detail of a processional scene. Early Imperial Age. Marble. Museum of Fine Arts. Budapest. Hungary.
EditorialROMAN ART. Roman marble relief from a conmmemorative monument to the Battle of Actium (31 BC). Detail of a processional scene. Museum of Fine Arts. Budapest. Hungary.
EditorialThe Battle of Actium from The Story of Caesar and Cleopatra. After a design by Justus van Egmont (1601-1674); Woven at the workshop of Willem van Leefdael (1632-1688); Flanders, Brussels. Date: 1670-1690. Dimensions: 400.6 ? 359.5 cm (157 3/4 ? 141 1/2...
EditorialDesigned by Justus van Egmont, The Battle of Actium from a set of The Story of Antony and Cleopatra, Flemish, Brussels, Weaving workshop directed by Jan van Leefdael (Brussels, active 164460), designed ca. 1650, woven 165077, Flemish, Brussels, Wool, s...
EditorialBook III. In the foreground; wrestling. In the background; ships weighing anchor and the sacrifice of a bull on the shore of Actium. The manuscript was probably produced for Ludovico Agnelli, Bishop of Cosenza. Aeneid. Italy [Rome?]; 1497-1499. Source:...
EditorialRoman relief from a commemorative monument of the Battle of Actium (31 BC). Detail of a processional scene. Early Imperial Age. Marble. Museum of Fine Arts. Budapest. Hungary.
EditorialROMAN ART. Roman marble relief from a conmmemorative monument to the Battle of Actium (31 BC). Detail of a processional scene. Museum of Fine Arts. Budapest. Hungary.
EditorialThe Battle of Actium from The Story of Caesar and Cleopatra. After a design by Justus van Egmont (1601-1674); Woven at the workshop of Willem van Leefdael (1632-1688); Flanders, Brussels. Date: 1670-1690. Dimensions: 400.6 ? 359.5 cm (157 3/4 ? 141 1/2...
EditorialBook III. In the foreground; wrestling. In the background; ships weighing anchor and the sacrifice of a bull on the shore of Actium. The manuscript was probably produced for Ludovico Agnelli, Bishop of Cosenza. Aeneid. Italy [Rome?]; 1497-1499. Source:...
EditorialSilver denarius of Cleopatra VII and Mark Anthony. Portrait of Cleopatra, companion of Mark Anthony. After their defeat in the sea battle of Actium in 31 BCE both committed suicide in Alexandria, capital of Egypt. CM 1860.3-28.21.
EditorialRoman relief from a commemorative monument of the Battle of Actium (31 BC). Detail of a processional scene. Early Imperial Age. Marble. Museum of Fine Arts. Budapest. Hungary.
EditorialThe Death of Cleopatra, ca. 1645?55, Oil on canvas, 37 3/8 ? 29 1/2 in. (95 ? 75 cm), Paintings, Guido Cagnacci (Italian, Santarcangelo di Romagna 1601?1663 Vienna), The subject derives from Plutarch's Lives (1st century A.D.) and illustrates Cleopatra...
EditorialRoman relief from a commemorative monument of the Battle of Actium (31 BC). Detail of a processional scene. Early Imperial Age. Marble. Museum of Fine Arts. Budapest. Hungary.
EditorialBust of Marcus Vipsanius Agrippa. Roman general and politician, Octavian Augustus collaborator. He was responsible for many of the military successes of Octavian, among which the naval victory of the Battle of Actium against Antony and Cleopatra VII of...
EditorialROMAN ART. Roman marble relief from a conmmemorative monument to the Battle of Actium (31 BC). Detail of a processional scene. Museum of Fine Arts. Budapest. Hungary.
EditorialSilver denarius of Cleopatra VII and Mark Anthony. Portrait of Cleopatra, companion of Mark Anthony. After their defeat in the sea battle of Actium in 31 BCE both committed suicide in Alexandria, capital of Egypt. CM 1860.3-28.21.
EditorialMarcus Vipsanius Agrippa (63-12 BCE, friend and brother-in-law of Emperor Augustus. Victorious in the battle of Actium against Pompeius, married to Julia, daughter of Augustus; built the Pantheon in Rome. Marble, H: 46 cm MA 1208.
EditorialLarge harbour monument, probably set up to celebrate Emperor Augustus' victory at Actium in 31 CE. The three-stepped round base to the structure still stands.