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The law of the jungle. For #SarcophagusSaturday, a C3 #sarcophagus a lenòs at #palazzoVenezia. Unlike variants where a trainer restrains the beast to show #virtus, this #lion devours its prey. It reflects the cruelty of nature, matching the anxieties of a fractured Roman empire. #AncientBluesky 🏺
STRIGILATED SARCOPHAGUS A LENOS, C3. PALAZZO VENEZIA In the sunlit garden loggia of the C15 palazzo Venezia, this unlabelled and uncatalogued sarcophagus a lenòs waits unobtrusively for our attention. A simple version of a widespread C3 style, it shows no personalisation. The main front features S-curved strigilation, with flutes meeting at the centre to form a blank mandorla. The curved right end displays a stylised lion with a mane elaborately coiffed like a C18 wig, grasping a small hoofed animal in its paws and jaws. Its pupils focus directly on us, menacingly indicating its preference for dining alone. Enough of the partially obscured left end is visible to confirm a matching relief. While some variants show a human trainer holding back the lion to represent virtus, this version focuses on the cruelty of nature. The weak are brutally devoured by the stronger, an understandable attitude toward death in the fractured and violent C3.
October 3, 2026 at 8:13 PM
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Centuries of #spolia. This #Romanesque wellhead was carved during the #Carolingian #Renaissance in #Rome, from a huge marble column capital probably from the lost Baths of #Constantine on the #Quirinal. It was in the now-vanished S. Agata in Diaconia, today in #palazzoVenezia. #AncientBluesky 🏺
WELLHEAD, 800-825 CE. PALAZZO VENEZIA This splendid Romanesque wellhead is of white Luni (Carrara) marble, almost certainly from the ruins of the early C4 Baths of Constantine, but the marble, whose profile is all that remains from an ancient capital, was already reused from an earlier building, as Constantine pillaged abandoned structures to decorate his Baths on the Quirinal hill. This wellhead is carved with a series of arches and columns covered in braided guilloches enclosing crosses, also decorated with guilloches, with Romanesque versions of acanthus leaves flanking each cross and a six-petalled flower in the upper quadrants. Scrolls and peaked pediments rise from the tops of the arches to the lip of the well, with palmettes in the spaces between the arches. The long use of this wellhead can be seen in the grooves inside, worn by centuries of rope for the water-bucket. This decoration shows how Lombard sculpture reinterpreted Roman forms.
February 15, 2026 at 2:39 PM
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This #SarcophagusSaturday finds us in the #viridarium or enclosed garden of Paul II in #palazzoVenezia in #Rome, where a #sarcophagus teeming with #Erotes evokes both fecundity and transformation. The #relief work is reminiscent of late-antique ivories. #AncientBluesky 🏺
CHILD'S SARCOPHAGUS WITH EROTES, C. 190-230 CE. PALAZZO VENEZIA This small but intact sarcophagus comes from the Mattei collection in the Villa Celimontana, once one of the greatest collections of any Roman noble family until it was put up for auction in the mid C18. Pope Benedict XIV Lambertini bought the best pieces, which are now in the nearly inaccessible Gallery of Statues in the Vatican Museums. The lesser pieces were scattered across Europe and a surprising amount are now in palazzo Venezia. This Severan-era box shows Erotes harvesting grapes and making wine, with the movement going from right to left, the opposite of the usual direction. At centre two Erotes are trampling grapes in a vat, then to the left another is leading a goat to sacrifice at an altar set before a phallic herm of Priapus holding a plate of fruits. The lid has a complex front of pediments with shallow reliefs showing griffins and Erotes holding wreaths, alternating with antefix-like forms with eagles and a youthful head (the deceased?) at centre.
October 11, 2025 at 10:25 AM
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Vittorio Emanuele II and the Basilica di San Giovanni in Laterano
Saturday, March 8th, 2025 @ Rome, Italy

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Vittorio Emanuele II and the Basilica di San Giovanni in Laterano
After breakfast at the W, we visited the huge Monument to Victor Emmanuel II followed by the Palazzo Venezia. After lunch, we visited the Basilica of San Giovanni in Laterano, the cathedral of the Pop...
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June 24, 2025 at 12:31 AM
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Dieser Palazzo stiehlt den grossen Villen die Schau: In Como, dem Promi-Paradies Norditaliens, entdeckt unser Kolumnist Carsten K. Rath ein 5-Sterne-Hotel, das Charakter hat, statt nur zu glänzen. Und das ist heutzutage viel wert. #PalazzoVenezia #ComerSee
Dieser Palazzo stiehlt den grossen Villen die Schau
In Como, dem Promi-Paradies Norditaliens, entdeckt unser Kolumnist Carsten K. Rath ein 5-Sterne-Hotel, das Charakter hat, statt nur zu glänzen. Und das ist heutzutage viel wert.
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September 23, 2026 at 1:14 PM
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Roma! Piazza Venezia #altaredellapatria #palazzovenezia #piazzavenezia #sweetnovember #november… https://www.instagram.com/p/Bb9qam8Hnvq/
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June 16, 2026 at 5:21 AM