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Pax Romana Art
The Masks of the Ancestors
The Roman Forum · Republican Rome
740 kr876 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: 18x12″ · 24x16″ · 36x24″
- Orientation: Horizontal
- Medium: Canvas
- Style: History painting
- Era: Timeless
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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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The Masks of the AncestorsFramed canvas · Black · 18x12″
740 kr
876 krSave 136 kr
The Roman Forum · Republican Rome
When the Ancestors Walked Again
Roman nobility rested on memory. Families whose members had reached the higher magistracies kept imagines, wax masks of those ancestors, in cupboards in the atrium of the house, each labeled with the man's offices and deeds. Pliny the Elder describes the faces linked by painted lines into family trees on the walls.
At the funeral of a distinguished man, Polybius explains, the masks came out. They were worn by men chosen for their likeness in height and bearing, dressed in the bordered toga of a consul or praetor, the full purple of a censor, or the gold-embroidered robe of a general who had celebrated a triumph. The rods and other signs of office were carried before them. At the Rostra in the Forum the masked figures sat in a row on ivory chairs, and a son or relative gave the eulogy, praising first the dead man and then each ancestor in turn, from the oldest down.
The piece
In the painting, the procession crosses the wet paving of the Forum from left to right, from the purple-draped bier to the horn players on the far side. The masks are the palest things in the picture: still, white faces among the living, with a temple and its columns rising behind them in the mist. In the foreground the crowd watches with their backs to us, so that we stand among them.
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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