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Pax Romana Art
The Five Good Emperors
Rome · AD 96–180
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- Printed in the USA. Made to order and shipped in the USA.
- Free US shipping. Tracking included on every order.
- Shatterproof plexiglass. Framed prints sit in a pine frame, FSC-certified, and arrive ready to hang.
- Magnetic wooden hanger. Posters come with a pine hanger; the magnets hold the print.
- Arrives perfect — guaranteed. Damaged or defective? Free reprint or refund.
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Framed print
- 12-color fine art printing with fade-resistant pigment inks
- Smooth matte fine art paper, 200 gsm
- Pine wood frame, FSC-certified paper and wood
- Shatterproof plexiglass
- Arrives framed and ready to hang, hanging kit included
Hanging print
- 12-color fine art printing with fade-resistant pigment inks
- Smooth matte fine art paper, 200 gsm
- Pine wood frame, FSC-certified paper and wood
- Shatterproof plexiglass
- Arrives framed and ready to hang, hanging kit included
- Sizes: 12x18″ · 16x24″ · 24x36″
- Orientation: Vertical
- Medium: Fine art paper
- Style: Family tree
- Era: Principate
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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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The Five Good EmperorsFramed print · Black · 16x24″
1.012 kr
1.352 krSave 340 kr
Rome · AD 96–180
The chain of adopted heirs
None of the first four emperors on this plate left a surviving son. Nerva, Trajan and Hadrian had no children, and the sons of Antoninus Pius died young. So each passed power to an adopted heir, mostly within his own wider family. Hadrian was the son of Trajan's cousin and married Trajan's great-niece, Vibia Sabina. Marcus Aurelius was the nephew of Antoninus's wife, Faustina the Elder, and married their daughter. Nerva's adoption of Trajan reached outside the family, as did Hadrian's of his first heir, Lucius Aelius.
Later writers praised the arrangement. Machiavelli credited adoption for the success of the five in his Discourses on Livy, and in 1776 Edward Gibbon named the years from the death of Domitian to the accession of Commodus as the time when the condition of the human race was most happy and prosperous. Marcus Aurelius, the first of the five with a son who survived him, made Commodus his heir. Commodus was co-emperor from AD 177 and sole emperor from 180 until he was strangled in a palace plot on 31 December 192.
The piece
The plate reads like a page from an old encyclopedia. The five portraits sit in a row at the top, each with a caption: Trajan born in Spain, Hadrian's Wall across northern Britain, Antoninus's second wall, Marcus writing his Meditations partly on campaign. The emperors are set in red and numbered, the dashed adoption lines step down the page from Nerva to Marcus, and Commodus waits at the bottom in his own gold medallion, beside the words 'his own son: the chain ends'. The source line names Cassius Dio, Pliny the Younger's Panegyricus and the Historia Augusta.
Materia · The materials
Fine art paper, framed or hung.
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Fine art paper
Framed prints: 200 gsm smooth matte paper, printed in 12 colors with fade-resistant pigment inks.
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Shatterproof plexiglass
Protects the print in transit and on the wall.
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Magnetic wooden hanger
Posters: 250 gsm museum-quality matte paper between pine hangers in black or dark wood. The magnets hold the print, so you can swap it any time.
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