Werner Forman Archive

GREECE AND ROME

Architecture, art, artefacts and evocative landscapes illustrating the history and culture of Ancient Greece and Rome.

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Centaur and Lapith fighting. From the Parthenon frieze.

Athens, 447-432 BC. British Museum, London.

The Parthenon.

Athens, 447-432 BC.

Iris, the messenger of the gods.

Athens, 438-432 BC. British Museum, London.

 

 

The Roman Forum.

Fresco from the Villa of the Mysteries.

Pompeii, 1st C BC.

View of Pompeii with Vesuvius in the background.

 

Mithras slaying the bull.

Museo, Nazionale Romano, Rome.

Constantine the Great.

Capitoline Museum, Rome

The Temple of Vesta, goddess of the hearth.

Roman Forum.