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Pax Romana Art
Alaric at the Salarian Gate
The Salarian Gate, Rome · AD 410
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- Printed in the USA. Printed, stretched, and shipped in the USA.
- Free US shipping. Tracking included on every order.
- Canvas, framed or not. Stretched over FSC-certified wooden bars, or set in a wooden frame with a 12 mm gap around it.
- Hanging hardware included. Framed canvas arrives assembled, with the hanger attached.
- Arrives perfect — guaranteed. Damaged or defective? Free reprint or refund.
Details & specs
Framed canvas
- Canvas (cotton-polyester blend)
- Set in a wooden frame with a 12 mm (0.45″) gap around the canvas
- 42 mm (1.65″) deep
- Arrives assembled and ready to hang: hanger attached, screws or nails included
Canvas
- Canvas (cotton-polyester blend)
- Stretched over FSC-certified wooden bars
- Hanging hardware included
- Sizes: 12x18″ · 16x24″ · 24x36″
- Orientation: Vertical
- Medium: Canvas
- Style: History painting
- Era: Crisis & Late Empire
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Made to order and printed and framed in the USA. Produced in 1–2 business days, delivered 2–5 business days after that — 3–7 business days door to door. Free US shipping, tracked.
Damaged, defective or the wrong item? Email a photo within 7 days of delivery and we send a free replacement or a full refund. Because every piece is made to order, change-of-mind returns are not accepted.
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Alaric at the Salarian GateFramed canvas · Black · 12x18″
740 kr
876 krSave 136 kr
The Salarian Gate, Rome · AD 410
The Gate That Opened
Alaric had served Rome as a commander of Gothic troops and spent years trying to win land and rank for his people from the western court. When the emperor Honorius, safe in Ravenna, refused his terms, Alaric blockaded Rome in 408 and again in 409, when he set up an emperor of his own. In the summer of 410, negotiations broke down once more.
On 24 August the Goths entered by the Salarian Gate in the city's northern walls. Procopius gives two stories of how: that Gothic youths, given to Roman nobles as slaves, opened it, or that a noblewoman named Proba ordered it opened out of pity for the starving people. Houses near the gate were set on fire, among them the old house of the historian Sallust. Orosius, a Christian writer, stresses that Alaric ordered the churches of the apostles Peter and Paul to be respected as sanctuaries.
The sack lasted three days, and its physical damage was small beside the shock it caused. In Bethlehem, Jerome wrote that the city which had taken the whole world was itself taken. In North Africa, Augustine began The City of God in response.
The piece
The painting is seen from behind the army. A wet stone road leads past soldiers with round shields and torches to the pale arch between the towers. The eye goes through it, as the Goths do, to the burning city beyond.
Materia · The materials
Canvas, framed or not.
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Wooden stretcher bars
The canvas is stretched over FSC-certified wooden bars.
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Floating frame
Black, natural wood or dark brown, with a 12 mm (0.45″) gap around the canvas. 42 mm (1.65″) deep.
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Ready for the wall
Framed canvas arrives assembled, hanger attached, screws or nails included. Canvas comes with its hanging hardware.
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