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"Athena of Velletri"
1st century Roman copies of a lost Greek bronze, possibly a bronze of c. 430 BC by Kresilas
Temple of Mars Ultor
elevation, restored by Julien Guadet, Grand Prix de Rome,1864
Temple of Mars Ultor
perspective of corinthian capital, restored by Hector d'Espouy
Inside view of the Pantheon
Architect Apollodorus of Damascus
Photo by Piotr Kowalski
Charles-Louis Clérisseau
Architectural fantasy with Roman ruins, n.d.
Pentelic marble caryatid from the Erechtheion. This is one of six caryatids that held up the roof of the Erechtheion. She wears a peplos pinned on each shoulder. Her hair is braided and falls in a thick rope down her back. She probably held a sacrificial.
Constant Moyaux
View on the Forum Romanum in ancient Rome - from left:
The Tabularium, Temple of Concord and Arch of Septimius Severus,1866.
Giovanni_Battista_Piranesi
Imaginary Ancient Temple Designed in the Style of Those Built in Honor of the Goddess Vesta… 1743
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Thomas W Schaller
"A Roman Stage Set" watercolor
Columns of the Hellenistic stoa on the Acropolis of Lindos, Rhodes. 300 BC
photo by handluggageonly
David Roberts
"The Gateway to the Great Temple at Baalbec", 1841

This painting, his RA 'Diploma' work, depicts the Great Temple at Baalbec in the Lebanon. Roberts visited this site on his first tour of the region in 1839 and described the daunting task of depicting a building of such 'magnificence…that it is impossible to convey any idea, either by pencil or pen…the beauty of its form, the exquisite richness of its ornament and the vast magnitude of its dimensions are altogether unparalleled...' Around the temple itself, Roberts included tiny figures in local dress, emphasising both the massive scale of the ruin and its exotic location.
Andrea Palladio
Villa Capra "La Rotonda"
In 1565 a priest, Paolo Almerico, on his retirement from the Vatican, decided to return to his home town of Vicenza in the Venetian countryside and build a country house. This house, later known as 'La Rotonda', was to be one of Palladio's best-known legacies to the architectural world. Villa Capra may have inspired a thousand subsequent buildings, but the villa was itself inspired by the Pantheon in Rome.
Temple of Apollo, Side, 150 A.D.
photo by Bahadir Sansarci

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Giovanni Battista Piranesi
"Plate 3: 'Ancient mausoleum erected for the ashes of a Roman emperor' from the series 'Part one of architecture and perspectives..."
It was a collection of twelve etchings of imaginary temples, palaces, ruins, and a prison. During this time, Piranesi was still developing the unique style of etching he is known for today...

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"Project for an arc of triumph Carousel with new entry imperial palace " 1804
Ink, Watercolor, Pencil, Paper
Antonio Asprucci
Temple of Asclepius inside the gardens of Villa Borghese (1785 -1792)
photo by HEN-Magonza

The architrave bears an inscription in Greek: "Ασκληπιωι Σωτηρι" (Asclepius the Savior).The hero and god of medicine in ancient Greek religion and mythology.
Temple of the Sun in Rome
Entablature, restored by Pierre Esquie