#roman europe

[ancientstuff]

Interesting article about the life of Roman soldiers in the far-flung areas of the empire.

[illustratus]

Roman period Head of Apollo

[galliaestomnis]

Eglise Saint-Nicolas, Blois, France

[artthatgivesmefeelings]

Charles-Amable Lenoir (French, 1860-1926) A dance by the sea, n.d.

[mybeautifulpoland]

All Saints' Day, Pilzno Cemetery, Subcarpathia, Poland by Krzysztof Kosowski

[armthearmour]

An early Basket-hilted Broadsword,

OaL: 42.5 in/107.9 cm

Blade Length: 36.5 in/92.7 cm

Width: 5.75 in/14.6 cm

Depth: 4.25 in/10.8 cm

Weight: 3 lbs/1360.8 g

Potsdam, Germany, hilt ca. 1540, blade 17th century, housed at the Metropolitan Museum of Art.

[allthingseurope]

Pula, Croatia (by Vladimir)

[wgm-beautiful-world]

COLOSSEO ROMANO

[dream-world-universe]

Siena Cathedral, Siena, Italy: Siena Cathedral is a medieval church in Siena, Italy, dedicated from its earliest days as a Roman Catholic Marian church, and now dedicated to the Assumption of Mary. It was the episcopal seat of the Diocese of Siena, and from the 15th century that of the Archdiocese of Siena. Wikipedia

[secular-jew]

[diemelusine]

Mosaic of the Emperor Justinian I from the Basilica of San Vitale, Ravenna, Italy. https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:PetarM

[illustratus]

Neptune's Horses by Walter Crane

[the-spirit-of-yore]

Château du Haut Koenigsbourg, Alsace, France

[artthatgivesmefeelings]

William Adolphe Bouguereau (French, 1825-1905) Birth of Venus, 1879 Musee d'Orsay, Paris

[mybeautifulpoland]

 St. John of Dukla Catholic Chapel, Subcarpathia, Poland by Szymon Muszański

[armthearmour]

A large Cuirassier's Armor, rough from the hammer, made for Duke Jakob Hannibal von Hohenems, South Germany, ca. 1580, housed at the Kunsthistorischesmusuem, Vienna.