Roman Emperors

The background to the controversy was the wave of persecutions of Christians by the Roman Emperor Diocletian. At that time some Church leaders - unwilling to endure torture or death ...

A martyr of the 4th century, she refuses to marry the Roman emperor Maximin, who condemns her to the torture of the wheel.

Amidst the atmosphere of the first wave of libelles, the Holy Roman Emperor Joseph came to call on his sister and brother-in-law on 18 April 1777.

This year was marked by the persecution of soldiers who had embraced the Christian faith by the Roman emperor Diocletian.   On hearing of the imprisonment of forty Christians in Laur...

The same practice of mounting cameos in jewellery was then continued by the Ancient Romans, and they are known to have been worn by many a Roman emperor.

The famous bracelet, reacquired a few years ago by the House of Mellerio, is indeed an 18th century jewel, set with antique cameos representing the profiles of Roman emperors. Two br...

The famous bracelet, reacquired a few years ago by the House of Mellerio, is indeed an 18th century jewel, set with antique cameos representing the profiles of Roman emperors. Two br...

The famous bracelet, reacquired a few years ago by the House of Mellerio, is indeed an 18th century jewel, set with antique cameos representing the profiles of Roman emperors. Two br...

The famous bracelet, reacquired a few years ago by the House of Mellerio, is indeed an 18th century jewel, set with antique cameos representing the profiles of Roman emperors. Two br...

The famous bracelet, reacquired a few years ago by the House of Mellerio, is indeed an 18th century jewel, set with antique cameos representing the profiles of Roman emperors. Two br...

The full-length portrait statue is of Augustus Caesar, the first emperor of the Roman Empire. Augustus is depicted barefooted and is intended to be a divine representation, as this w...

The peculiarity of the intaglio lies also in the fact that the instrument is accompanied by two butterflies, symbol of the soul and its transition between the earthly and spiritual w...

One of the first known examples of cased glass, the Portland Vase, dates from the reign of Roman emperor Caesar Augustus.” The first outer layer of the Lenti vase consisted of a seri...

One of the first known examples of cased glass, the Portland Vase, dates from the reign of Roman emperor Caesar Augustus.” The first outer layer of the Lenti vase consisted of a seri...

An exceptional Bvlgari Monete necklace centered by an ancient Roman bronze coin of Emperor Caracalla, dating to his reign from A.D. 198–211.

Highly stylised in a neoclassical manner, it is possibly a tribute to a Roman noble or emperor. The unknown figure looking left has flowing hair adorned with jewels.

At festivals in his honor, simulated battles were held between priests and the people in which they beat each other with sticks. During Roman times, Emperor Tiberius was depicted on ...

Background: Saint George lived in the late 3rd century, under Diocletian's rule of the Roman Empire, an emperor who harshly persecuted Christians.

You can notice the king and queen of Lydda watching everything from the castle's balcony, while Christ Pantocrator is watching over from heaven. St. George was a Roman soldier; he su...

Profile of a relatively young man, with wavy hair, divided into locks, reminiscent of ancient Roman portraits of certain emperors (Julio-Claudian dynasty, for example).

Augustus of Prima Porta was also known as Julius Caesar. A Roman statesman and military leader, he became the first Emperor of the Roman Empire.

Large, original antique print of the Tropaeum Alpium, a Roman trophy (tropaeum) celebrating the emperor Augustus's decisive victory over the tribes who populated the Alps.

The Arch of Titus, a 1st-century Roman triumphal arch commemorating Emperor Titus’s victories, serves here as both a physical and symbolic threshold—linking classical antiquity to th...

The original Augustus of Prima Porta (Italian: Augusto di Prima Porta) is a 2.03 m high marble statue of Augustus Caesar, the first emperor of the Roman Empire, was discovered on Apr...

Original antique print of the Tropaeum Alpium, a Roman trophy (tropaeum) celebrating the emperor Augustus's decisive victory over the tribes who populated the Alps.

The term “soldo” derives from the Latin word “solidus,” which was a Roman gold coin introduced by Emperor Constantine in 309 AD.

He enjoyed portraying big stars of yesterday and today: Rudolf Valentino, Marilyn Monroe, Frank Sinatra and Alberto Sordi, represented in the clothes of an ancient Roman like the Emp...

Geta (full name Publius Septimius Geta) was the son of Septimius Severus and Julia Domna, and the brother of Caracalla. He was a Roman co-emperor from 209 to 212 AD, first with his f...

They are hand-carved marble, coin motif drawings of the Roman General Agrippa and Emperor Constantine resting on welded steel bases.

I felt like an ancient Roman, guest to a decadent emperor. Stefan, it must be said, doesn’t have a puritanical bone in his body, and there were no holds barred in terms of excess and...

The oval shaped agate cameo skillfully depicts the Roman Emperor Titus, famous for completing the Colosseum in Rome.

The Emperors Necklace, an early Victorian hardstone cameo necklace, the twelve oval chalcedony cameo plaques, each carved with the profile of a Roman Emperor, all mounted in close-ba...

The unifying theme is the artistic patronage of the Medici, the Grand Dukes of Tuscany, who intermarried with the Habsburgs, who were the Holy Roman Emperors. Among the papers are p...

The distinctive visual tradition of the Bohemian school first began to take shape in the middle of the fourteenth century after Charles IV—King of Bohemia and later Holy Roman Empero...

This DUBINI coin ring from the 'Empires' collection features an authentic Roman bronze coin set in 18K rose gold. Coin Ø 9-10mm Please contact us for images of available coin optio...