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Pax Romana Art
Commodus in the Arena
Rome · AD 192
1.059 kr1.419 kr
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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: 12x16″ · 18x24″ · 24x32″
- 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.
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Commodus in the ArenaFramed canvas · Black · 18x24″
1.059 kr
1.419 krSave 360 kr
Rome · AD 192
The Emperor Who Played Hercules
Commodus became sole emperor in AD 180, at eighteen, on the death of his father Marcus Aurelius. Ancient writers remember him harshly. Cassius Dio, a senator who saw him with his own eyes, and the historian Herodian describe an emperor who left government to favorites, renamed Rome and the months of the year after himself, and had himself portrayed as Hercules, with lion skin and club.
His greatest scandal was the arena. Late in AD 192 he gave public games in which he took part himself. Herodian says he shot ostriches with crescent-headed arrows that took off their heads, so that the birds ran on for a moment headless. Dio, who was there, says Commodus once came up to where the senators sat, holding the head of an ostrich he had killed, and that they chewed laurel leaves from their wreaths to hide their laughter, which could have cost them their lives. On the last day of AD 192 Commodus was strangled in his bath by an athlete named Narcissus, in a plot that reached into his own household.
The piece
The painting shows him at the height of his performance. The lion's head crowns his own, its paws knotted on his chest over a purple tunic, and his bow rises against the striped awnings. Attendants wait with quivers, guards stand at attention, and in the stands the senators in their wreaths sit very still.
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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