Emperor Augustus Gallery
Available as Framed Prints, Photos, Wall Art and Gift Items
Choose from 63 pictures in our Emperor Augustus collection for your Wall Art or Photo Gift. Popular choices include Framed Prints, Canvas Prints, Posters and Jigsaw Puzzles. All professionally made for quick delivery.
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'Ovid', (43BC- c18AD), 1830. Creator: Unknown
'Ovid', (43BC- c18AD), 1830. Publius Ovidius Naso (43BC- c18AD) known as Ovid, Roman poet and contemporary of Virgil and Horace in Latin literature, exiled by Augustus to the Black Sea and best know for Metamorphoses. From "Biographical Illustrations", by Alfred Howard. [Thomas Tegg, R. Griffin and Co., J. Cumming, London, Glasgow and Dublin, 1830]
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'Roma - Portico of Octavia ', 1910. Artist: Unknown
'Roma - Portico of Octavia', 1910. A small ruin of a grand quadrangular portico erected by Augustus emperor and dedicated to his sister Octavia. The Porticus Octaviae is an ancient structure in Rome. built by Augustus in the name of his sister, Octavia Minor, sometime after 27 BC, in place of the Porticus Metelli. From Cento Vedute Classiche di Roma. [Enrico Verdesi, Rome, 1910]
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Cameo of the Emperor Augustus. Artist: Unknown
Cameo of the Emperor Augustus. This cameo was carved from a three-layered sardonyx. It is a fragment of a larger portrait of the first Roman emperor, Augustus (27 BC-14 AD). He is shown in a majestic pose, and wears a sword-belt, symbolizing his military authority, and the aegis usually associated with the goddess Minerva. The jewelled headband was added in the medieval period. Such a depiction of the emperor, one that openly assumes a divine attribute, was probably only intended to be seen by a few. It could have proved controversial for such an image to have been spread widely, since Roman society was still very mistrustful of monarchy, with many hoping for a return to the Republic. The Roman Republic, a system whereby Rome and its territories were governed by the people without a single fixed head of state, had been swept away in a series of bloody civil wars from which Augustus emerged as the sole ruler. Nevertheless, images of Augustus that were intended for a wider audience, such as those on coins and statues, were necessarily quite modest during his lifetime. Located in the British Museum, London.
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