Guess the vacation site

[guy]

Unfortunately, this is one of the few sites Roman sites I get to visit these days.

 

 

 

guy also known as gaius

[Auris Arrectibus]

First impression:

- A bas-relief depicting a war-scene

- of a battle between romans and gauls, since the latter fought practically naked

- at the side of a tomb

 

Let's google on that.

 

Auris

[guy]

Aurius:

 

Thank you for your impressions of this relief sculpture.

 

I couldn't tell the enemies by their weapons. (They look like the standard gladius.) The short hair of the enemy would make me lean against Celts or even Dacian.

 

 

guy also known as gaius.

[guy]

Another relief sculpture from the same location:

 

 

 

guy also known as gaius

[Auris Arrectibus]

Another relief sculpture from the same location:

 

Ancient Rome picture.jpg

 

 

guy also known as gaius

 

Abduction of the Sabine women?

 

Auris

[guy]

Auris Arrectibus, on 29 Sept 2013 - 04:08, said:

Abduction of the Sabine women?

 

Auris

I hadn't thought of that, but could be.

 

Any thoughts where this site of Romanesque art is?

 

 

guy also known as gaius

 

 

P.S. I see you have Amsterdam listed as your home. Are you Dutch? Ik hou van Amsterdam.

Edited September 29, 2013 by guy

[Auris Arrectibus]

Forum Shops at Caesars Palace, Las Vegas.
Made from artificial marble.

 

I don't think they are replicas of a roman bas-relief.

The one with the sabine women capture scene (raptio), one of the sculptures depicted looks like the one you can find at the base

of the raptio-sculpture in the Loggia delle Signotia (dei Lanzi) in Firenze, Italy. Made by Giambologna in 16th century and commissioned

by the Medici-family.

This scene - a man lifting a sabine women- is the same scene as the sculpture at the base as in the bas-relief. It couldbe inspired by a
sculpture in the roman era, but I doubt that.

 

The other one I could not find on the net, maybe the sabine men were murdered here.

 

Auris

 

 

[Auris Arrectibus]

 

Auris Arrectibus, on 29 Sept 2013 - 04:08, said:

Abduction of the Sabine women?

 

Auris

I hadn't thought of that, but could be.

 

Any thoughts where this site of Romanesque art is?

 

 

guy also known as gaius

 

 

P.S. I see you have Amsterdam listed as your home. Are you Dutch? Ik hou van Amsterdam.

 

And yes, I'm Dutch and live in Amsterdam...

 

Ik hou ook van Amsterdam,

Auris

[guy]

Well done! (Goed gedaan!)

 

Caesars Palace in Las Vegas is as close as I come to Ancient Rome these days (although the Getty Villa near Los Angeles is nice).

 

 

Maybe one day we can have a UNRV reunion there :

 

 

guy also known as gaius

[Viggen]

I was over the weekend on a day trip to Cividale del Friuli. Was in for a surprise to see Julius Caesar still appreciated with fresh flowers at his statue, (apparently he founded the city)