Ancient Rome – THAT IS PRICELESS

MASTERPIECE #2451

Joseph-Noël Sylvestre, French

“Bruh, Could You NOT Have At Least Put On a Loincloth First? I Really Didn’t Need To See Your ‘Sack’ Of Rome,” 1890

Oil on canvas

Lawrence Alma-Tadema, Dutch-British

“So Then I Say To Caesar, ‘Oh Yeah? You and Whose Army?’ Which in Retrospect, Was Probably a Mistake,” 1866

Oil on wood

Pierre Olivier Joseph Coomans, Belgian

Quote of the Day — Young Julius Caesar (95 B.C.): “I Came, I Saw, I Stomped on Your Doll” (“Veni, Vidi, Barbi”), 1872

Oil on panel

Cesare Maccari, Italian

Cicero Accepting the Golden Globe For Best Orator in an Ancient Culture — Republic or Oligarchy, 1889

Fresco

John William Waterhouse, English

Nero Taking a Break From Fiddling To Watch CNN’s Coverage of the Big Fire, 1878

Oil on canvas

Edward Poynter, British

Sextus Marcellus Hated When the Roman Army Hired Temps, Because He Always Got Stuck With the Weirdos, 1868

Oil on canvas

Carlos Esquivel y Rivas, Spanish

Alaric II, King of the Visigoths, Stung By the Times’ Bad Review of His Sack of Rome, 1856

Oil on canvas

Lawrence Alma-Tadema, Dutch-British

“So Then I Say to Caesar, ‘Oh Yeah? You and Whose Army?’ Which in Retrospect, Was Probably a Mistake,”, 1866

Oil on wood

Briton Rivière, British

Gladiator Attempting to Write the Word “Timeout,” 1881

Oil on canvas