200-Oct 36
Dimensions : 35.5 cm by 31 cm.
Original enhanced engraving from the 18th century on laid and watermarked paper (see photographs below).
Said “optical view”.
Minimal traces of handling, folds, small cuts on the edges in the margin.
In transparency:
Quick and neat delivery.
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200-Oct 36
The Temple of Venus and Rome is the largest temple in terms of area in ancient Rome. It was built during the reign of Emperor Hadrian, between the old Roman Forum and the Colosseum.
Location
The temple is built on the gentle slope which descends towards the Colosseum, on land which was occupied by the vestibule of Nero's Domus aurea. It was also necessary to move the colossus of Nero to create the desired space1. A significant embankment was necessary to compensate for a difference in level of 9 m and form a rectangular terrace of 145 m by 100 m2, in the middle of which was the temple itself, 108 m long and 54 m wide. Two double colonnades line the longer sides of the terrace.
Function
This building is closely linked to the celebration of Rome's birthdays: the date of April 21 as Rome's birthday is celebrated each year during the Parilia. Antoninus the Pious celebrated the 900th anniversary in 148. The coins minted on this occasion show the decastyle facade of the temple3 highlighting the monument and the cult attached to it. The temple became the best representation of Rome's eternity. In 248, during the celebration of the millennium of Rome, the temple of Venus and Rome was undoubtedly the heart of the ceremonies. It acquired a fundamental role in the religious life of the city. It is, according to Michel Christol, the convenient point of reference for those who want to summarize the entire traditional Roman religion whose survival and maintenance appear as a guarantee and a safeguard: the temple can be said to shelter the fortune of the city. On the coins of Philip the Arab celebrating the millennium of Rome, we see a hexastyle temple. It could be a simplified representation of the decastyle temple of Venus and Rome with the legend SAECULUM NOVUM (“new century”)4.
History
antiquity
Started in 121 AD. BC, at the beginning of Hadrian's reign, the building was not inaugurated until April 21, 1352.5 or 137 or 138, the anniversary of the founding of Rome, and its decoration was completed in 141-143 under the reign of Antoninus the Pious6.
The two main chambers (cellae) of the temple each housed a colossal statue, Venus on the one hand and Roma on the other, leaning against the temple like their names, Venus representing Love, or AMOR and ROMA, spelled in towards.
In 283, the cellae were damaged by a fire, and restored from 308 by Maxentius, who had the apses that we see today redone by providing them with a vaulted roof. Coins of Maximian Hercules and Maxentius representing the temple (the part dedicated to the goddess Rome whose statue was miraculously spared by the fire) with the legend CONSERVATOR VRBIS SVAE (literally "protector or preserver of his city") commemorate these works
Location
The temple is built on the gentle slope which descends towards the Colosseum, on land which was occupied by the vestibule of Nero's Domus aurea. It was also necessary to move the colossus of Nero to create the desired space1. A significant embankment was necessary to compensate for a difference in level of 9 m and form a rectangular terrace of 145 m by 100 m2, in the middle of which was the temple itself, 108 m long and 54 m wide. Two double colonnades line the longer sides of the terrace.
Function
This building is closely linked to the celebration of Rome's birthdays: the date of April 21 as Rome's birthday is celebrated each year during the Parilia. Antoninus the Pious celebrated the 900th anniversary in 148. The coins minted on this occasion show the decastyle facade of the temple3 highlighting the monument and the cult attached to it. The temple became the best representation of Rome's eternity. In 248, during the celebration of the millennium of Rome, the temple of Venus and Rome was undoubtedly the heart of the ceremonies. It acquired a fundamental role in the religious life of the city. It is, according to Michel Christol, the convenient point of reference for those who want to summarize the entire traditional Roman religion whose survival and maintenance appear as a guarantee and a safeguard: the temple can be said to shelter the fortune of the city. On the coins of Philip the Arab celebrating the millennium of Rome, we see a hexastyle temple. It could be a simplified representation of the decastyle temple of Venus and Rome with the legend SAECULUM NOVUM (“new century”)4.
History
antiquity
Started in 121 AD. BC, at the beginning of Hadrian's reign, the building was not inaugurated until April 21, 1352.5 or 137 or 138, the anniversary of the founding of Rome, and its decoration was completed in 141-143 under the reign of Antoninus the Pious6.
The two main chambers (cellae) of the temple each housed a colossal statue, Venus on the one hand and Roma on the other, leaning against the temple like their names, Venus representing Love, or AMOR and ROMA, spelled in towards.
In 283, the cellae were damaged by a fire, and restored from 308 by Maxentius, who had the apses that we see today redone by providing them with a vaulted roof. Coins of Maximian Hercules and Maxentius representing the temple (the part dedicated to the goddess Rome whose statue was miraculously spared by the fire) with the legend CONSERVATOR VRBIS SVAE (literally "protector or preserver of his city") commemorate these works