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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Sallent, post: 3194395, member: 76194&quot;]As if I needed one more addiction, in comes [USER=87404]@Justin Lee[/USER] to show me one more thing I needed but didn&#039;t yet know I wanted.</p><p><br /></p><p>I now present my two copperplate hand-colored prints from the 17th Century, and a relevant coin to match. Going to frame both up for my office wall.</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]825304[/ATTACH]</p><p>35 x 24.5 cm (13.8 x 9.8 inches).</p><p>De Urbis Colossis (1699 CE)</p><p>Pietro Santi Bartoli</p><p>Copperplate engraving on chain-linked cotton paper. (hand colored).</p><p><br /></p><p>This is a representation of the seven colossal statues that dotted the city of Rome in antiquity. Number 6 is none other than the Colossal statue of Nero.</p><p><br /></p><p>Although no one is completely sure what the statue looked like in reality, here is a fairly decent modern depiction.</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]825312[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>Anyway, here&nbsp; is a coin of Nero to accompany it:</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]825305[/ATTACH]</p><p>Nero</p><p>Ae As</p><p><br /></p><p>And my other print is what this 17th century artist imagined the mausoleum of Augustus would have looked like in its prime.</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]825306[/ATTACH]</p><p>35 x 24.5 cm (13.8 x 9.8 inches).</p><p>Mausoleum Augusti (1699 CE)</p><p>Pietro Santi Bartoli</p><p>Copperplate engraving on chain-linked cotton paper. (hand colored).</p><p><br /></p><p>And here is what modern research and scholarship thinks the actual mausoleum looked like.</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]825309[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>Here is a relevant coin of Augustus:</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]825311[/ATTACH]</p><p>Augustus</p><p>AR denarius</p><p><br /></p><p>I will add that the whole book must have been obscenely expensive as it comprised of around 140 copperplate images. This was not an easy feat in the 17th century. And a premium hand-drawn version like this must have been even more ridiculously expensive as it took a team of artists to sit there and hand color these prints one by one.</p><p><br /></p><p>I&#039;ve got to say that as a&nbsp; history nerd I&#039;m actually quite thrilled at the prospect of having 2 pages from a book up on my wall that are older than the United States of America, and depict what people in the late 17th Century imagined the ancient Roman world looked like.</p><p><br /></p><p><b>Post any relevant coins/artworks/etc.</b>[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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