COLLECTION NAME:
Splendore Dell' Antica Roma
Record
Title:
Leaf 94 - Turris Seu Domus Et Horti Maecenatis
Creator:
Lauro, Giacomo
Description:
The Tower and Gardens of Maecenas. The Gardens were planted over a former graveyard on the Esquiline Hill by Maecenas who was an advisor to Augustus and patron of poets such as Virgil and Horace. Suetonius and other sources reported that the gardens contained a tall tower. After Maecenas' death, the gardens became an imperial property. It is said that Maecenas had the first heated swimming pool in Rome.
Description:
The verso of this leaf contains text in three languages with page title in Italian: Torre di Mecenatae.
Subject:
Rome (Italy) -- Antiquities.
Subject:
Architecture, Domestic -- Italy -- Rome.
Subject:
Rome (Italy) -- Buildings, structures, etc.
Subject:
Gardens of Maecenas.
Subject:
Gaius Cilnius Maecenas, 68 BC – 8 BC
Publisher:
Andrea Fei, Roma, 1625
Date:
1625
Coverage:
Rome (Italy)
Coverage:
Italy
Type:
Still Image
Extent:
28.5 x 21 cm
Format/Medium:
Engravings
Source:
Splendore dell'antica Roma, in Jen Library Archives and Special Collections, Savannah College of Art and Design.
Rights:
Though this item is believed to be in the Public Domain, copyright may have been retained by the authors or creators of items in this collection, or their descendants, as stipulated by United States copyright law.
