Pax Romana Art

The Night Rome Burned

Rome · July 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: 12x16″ · 18x24″ · 24x32″ · 30x40″
  • Orientation: Vertical
  • Medium: Fine art paper
  • Style: Minimalist
  • Era: Principate
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The Night Rome Burned: an illustration of the skyline of ancient Rome burning in a band of orange flame across dark water at night, watched from shore
The Night Rome BurnedAD 64
Rome · July AD 64

A Line of Fire Across the Dark

The fire began on the night of 18 to 19 July AD 64, in shops full of flammable goods along the Circus Maximus, and the wind drove it fast through the narrow streets. Tacitus, our fullest source, says it burned for six days before it was halted at the foot of the Esquiline by pulling down buildings, then broke out again. Three of the city's fourteen districts were leveled, seven were left with only a few gutted ruins, and four were untouched.

The emperor Nero was at Antium when it started and returned to Rome as the flames neared his palace. Tacitus says he opened the Campus Martius and his own gardens to the homeless and cut the price of grain. He also reports a rumor that Nero had sung of the fall of Troy on a private stage while the city burned, and he leaves open whether the fire was an accident or arson. Nero blamed the Christians and had many of them put to death. He rebuilt with wider streets and more stone, and on the burned ground raised his vast Golden House.

The piece

The print is almost entirely black. The fire is a single band across the lower third, and the buildings stand in it as flat silhouettes, their light shaking in red on the water. Above it the dark sky goes up and up. In the lower right, at the very edge, a few small figures and two cypresses on the near bank look across at all of it.

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.

The Night Rome Burned: an illustration of the skyline of ancient Rome burning in a band of orange flame across dark water at night, watched from shore
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.