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Rome in Flames

Rome · AD 64

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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: 16x12″ · 24x18″ · 32x24″ · 40x30″
  • Orientation: Horizontal
  • Medium: Fine art paper
  • Style: Graphic print
  • Era: Principate
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Rome in FlamesFramed print · Black · 32x24″ 1.847 kr 2.642 krSave 795 kr
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Rome in Flames: an illustration of the skyline of ancient Rome burning at night across the Tiber, with temples, an aqueduct and towering smoke
Rome in FlamesAD 64
Rome · AD 64

Six Days of Fire

The Great Fire of Rome began on 19 July AD 64, in shops around the Circus Maximus that were full of flammable goods. Driven by wind, it spread through the narrow, winding streets for six days before it was stopped at the foot of the Esquiline Hill by pulling down buildings in its path. Then it broke out again elsewhere. Tacitus says that of the city's fourteen districts only four were untouched; three were leveled and seven left as a few scorched ruins.

The emperor Nero was at Antium when it started. Tacitus reports that he hurried back, opened the Campus Martius and his own gardens to the homeless and brought in grain. But a rumor spread that while the city burned he had sung of the fall of Troy on a private stage. There was no fiddle, and Tacitus presents the singing only as hearsay. Suetonius and Cassius Dio accuse Nero of starting the fire; Tacitus says the sources disagreed.

To silence the rumors, Tacitus says, Nero blamed the Christians of Rome and had many of them put to death.

The piece

The print is a long, low view across the river at night. The black outline of the city runs the width of the sheet: an aqueduct on the left, temple fronts, houses with lit windows, and on the right a hill crowned with buildings above the arches of a bridge. Above it, smoke and fire engraved in fine line fill most of the sheet, shot with sparks. The river below doubles it all.

Materia · The materials

Fine art paper, framed or hung.

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Pine frame

Black, dark wood or natural wood, FSC-certified. Framed prints arrive framed and ready to hang, hanging kit included.

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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.

Size guide

Find the right size

This piece, to scale, above an 84-inch sofa. Pick a size, or a format and frame above, and the wall follows.

Rome in Flames: an illustration of the skyline of ancient Rome burning at night across the Tiber, with temples, an aqueduct and towering smoke
Sofa · 84″ / 213 cm

Which size?

Sizes are the artwork's. Frames and hangers add a little around the edge.

Above a sofa or bed, art looks best at about two-thirds of the furniture's width, hung 8 to 10 inches above it.