1.1 Giovanni Battista Piranesi, Veduta degli Avanzi di due Triclinj che appartenevano alla Casa Aurea di Nerone 8
1.2 Giovanni Battista Piranesi, Veduta degli Avanzi del Tablino della Casa Aurea di Nerone Detti Volgaramente Il Tempio di Pace 9
1.3 Pirro Ligorio, “Porta Aurea, Meta Aurea,” Imago Urbis Antiquae, plate 7, 1561 (Carlo Losi edition 1773), Atlanta, Emory University Stuart A. Rose Manuscript Archive and Rare Book Library, and Michael C. Carlos Museum 10
1.4 Félix Vallotton, “César, Socrate, Jésus, Néron,” 1892, Geneva, MAH Musée d’Art et Histoire, Ville de Genève, E670164 11
2.1 Ara Pacis Augustae, South Frieze, Drusus Maior, Antonia Maior, Gn. Domitius Ahenobarbus, Domitia, L. Domitius Ahenobarbus 14
2.2 Temple of Divus Augustus, Caligula, sestertius, Rome, c.37, American Numismatic Society, inv. 1967.153.113 18
2.3 Agrippina Minor, type 1, Providence Rhode Island, Rhode Island School of Design, Museum, acc. no. 56-097 19
2.4 Agrippina Maior, Rome, Museo Capitolino, Stanza degli Imperatori 7, inv. 421 21
2.5 Agrippina Minor/Securitas, Drusilla/Concordia and Julia Livilla/Fortuna, sestertius of Caligula, Rome, c.37, American Numismatic Society, inv. 1944.100.39337 22
2.6 Agrippina Minor, Nero and Roma, Paris, Bibliothèque nationale de France, Cabinet des Médailles 277 23
2.7 Caligula, type 1, Richmond, Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, acc. no. 71-20 27
2.8 Messalina and Britannicus, Paris, Musée du Louvre, MA 1224 32
2.9 Messalina/Agrippina Minor, Naples, Museo Archeologico Nazionale, inv. 6242 35
2.10a–b Claudius and Agrippina Minor, aureus, Rome, c.49–54, American Numismatic Society, inv. 1954.256.6 36
2.11 Claudius and Agrippina, cistophorus, Ephesus, c.49–54, American Numismatic Society, inv. 1944.100.39366 37
2.12a Claudius, Agrippina Minor, and the Genius Senatus, Aphrodisias, inv. 80.139 38
2.12b Claudius, Agrippina Minor, Genius Senatus and Princes as Dioscouri, Aphrodisias, inv. 80.139, 80–138, 80–80 38
2.12c Prince as Discourus, Aphrodisias, inv. 80–80 39
2.13 Nero and Britanniucs, Aphrodisias, inv. 79–118 41
2.14 Agrippina Minor, Naples, Museo Archeologico Nazionale, inv. 5612 42
2.15 Claudius, Agrippina Minor, Germanicus, and Agrippina Maior, the Gemma Claudia, Vienna, Kunsthistorisches Museum, inv. IX a 63 44
2.16 Claudius/Honorius and Agrippina Minor/Maria, the Rothschild cameo 46
2.17 Germanicus and Agrippina Maior, the Gonzaga cameo, St. Petersburg, Hermitage, inv. Nr. Ž 291 48
2.18 Grand Camée de France, Paris, Bibliothèque nationale de France, Cabinet des Médailles 264 49
2.19 Nero, type 1, London, British Museum, inv. 1824, 0301.21 52
2.20a–b Nero, type 1, London, British Museum, inv. 1868, 0520.2 53
2.21 Nero, type 1, London, British Museum, inv. 1854,0717.53 55
2.22a–b Nero, aureus, Rome, c.51–54, American Numismatic Society, inv. 1944.100.394 56
2.23a–b Nero, aureus, Rome, c.51–54, American Numismatic Society, inv. 1954.256.7 56
2.24a–b Nero, type 1, Geneva, MAH Musée d’Art et Histoire, Ville de Genève, inv. C 186 61
2.25a–b Nero, type 1, Paris, Musée du Louvre, MA 1210 62
2.26 Nero, type 1, Detroit, Institute of Arts, acc. no. 69.218, Founders Society Purchase, Hill Memorial Fund, William H. Murphy Fund, et al. 64
2.27 Nero, type 1, Grosseto, Museo Archeologico d’Arte della Maremma 70
2.28 Dedicatory inscription, Claudian statue group, Rome, Museo Capitolino, Stanza Terrena a destra 2, CIL 6.921 71
2.29 Recarved Nero, type 1, Rome, Musei Vaticani, Galleria Chiaramonti 22.15, inv. 1528 75
2.30 Porta Maggiore, Rome 77
2.31 Caligula/Claudius, Rome, Musei Capitolini, Centrale Montemartini 2.74, inv. 2443 79
3.1 Nero, type 2, Rome, Museo Capitolino, Stanza degli Imperatori 4, inv. 418 83
3.2 Nero, type 2, Cagliari, Museo Nazionale, inv. 35533 84
3.3 Nero, type 2, St. Petersburg, Hermitage, inv. A 780 85
3.4 Nero, type 2, Rome, Museo Nazionale Romano, Palazzo Massimo alle Terme, inv. 616 86
3.5 Nero, type 2, Omaha, Joselyn Art Museum, inv. 1955.271 88
3.6 Nero, type 2, London, British Museum, inv. 1965, 1201.1 89
3.7 Gaius/Nero, type 2, Rome, Musei Vaticani, Sala dei Busti 385, inv. 591 91
3.8 Agrippina Minor, Ancona type, Florence, Galleria degli Uffizi, 1914.115 95
3.9a Agrippina Minor, Stuttgart type, Rome, Musei Capitolini, Centrale Montemartini 2.43, inv. 1.882 96
3.9b Agrippina Minor, Stuttgart type, Copenhagen, Ny Carlsberg Glyptotek, 634, inv. 753 97
3.10 Agrippina Minor, Ancona type, Naples, Museo Nazionale Archeologico, inv. 5609 99
3.11a–b Nero and Agrippina Minor, aureus, Rome, c.54–55, American Numismatic Society, inv. 1905.57.291 100
3.12a–b Nero and Agrippina Minor, aureus, Rome, c.55, American Numismatic Society, inv. 1967.153.219 100
3.13 Nero and Agrippina Minor, Paris, Bibliothèque nationale de France, Cabinet des Médailles, 286 102
3.14 Nero, London, British Museum, inv. 1923,0401.817 103
3.15a–b Nero/Domitian, Rome, Musei Vaticani, Braccio Nuovo 126, inv. 2213 105
3.16 Nero, Istanbul, Archaeological Museum 584, inv. 506 106
3.17 Nero and Agrippina Minor, Aphrodisias, inv. 82–250 107
3.18 Nero/Titus, Olympia, Museum no. 144 110
3.19 Neronian cuirass, Rome, Galleria Borghese, Portico, inv. 28 115
3.20 Neptune, Aphrodisias, inv. 79–95, 79–116, 81–5 117
3.21a Nero and Armenia, Aphrodisias, inv. 80–168 118
3.21b Achilles and Penthesileia, Aphrodisias inv. 81–119 119
3.22 Nero, Sebasteion, Aphrodisias, inv. 79–97, 79–98 121
3.23a–b Neronian cuirass, Grosseto, Museo Archeologico e d’Arte della Maremma 122
3.24 Neronian cuirass, restored by Orfeo Boselli as Fabrizio Colonna, Rome, Palazzo Colonna, Giardini 123
3.25a–b Nero, Arch of Nero, sestertius, Rome, 64–68, New York, American Numismatic Society, inv. 1937.158.472 124
3.26a–b Plinth, from the Arch of Nero?, Rome, Musei Capitolini, Centrale Montemartini 2.63, inv. 11123 127
3.27 Parthian, from the Arch of Nero?, Rome, Museo Nazionale Romano, Palazzo Massimo alle Terme, inv. 39163 128
3.28 Nero/Vespasian, Baltimore, Walters Art Museum, inv. 23.119, acquired by Henry Walters, 1912 130
3.29 Nero and Agrippina, Cologne, Dom, Dreikönigenschrein I B a 17 132
3.30 Seated Jupiter torso, Rome, Galleria Borghese, Portico, inv. 27 132
3.31 Standing Jupiter statue, Rome Galleria Borghese, Sae, inv. 39 136
3.32 Nero/Claudius and Agrippina as Triptolemus and Demeter, Paris, Bibliothèque Nationale de France, Cabinet des Médailles, 276 138
3.33 Apollo, Museo Nazionale Romano, inv. 54745 140
3.34 Helios, Sebasteion, Aphrodisias, inv. 82–247 142
3.35 Nero, type 2, bronze coin, Cidrama, RPC 2880 143
3.36 Funerary altar of Gaius Iulius Saecularis, Rome, Museo Nazionale Romano alle Terme, inv. 2399 148
3.37 Nero/Antinous, Bibliothèque Nationale de France, Cabinet des Medailles, 238 150
4.1 Macellum Magnum, dupondius, Lugdunum, c.64–68, New York, American Numismatic Society, inv. 1995.11.762 158
4.2 Funerary altar of L. Calpurnius Daphnus, Rome, Palazzo Massimo alle Colonne, CIL 6.9183 160
4.3 Baths of Nero, after Andrea Palladio, Fabbriche Antiche designate da Andrea Palladio Vicentino, e date in luce da Ricardo Conte di Brlington (London 1730), RIBA29041 162
4.4 Baths of Nero, grey Egyptian Granite Columns, Rome, S. Eustachio 165
4.5 Western Campus Martius 167
4.6a Pons Neronianus, G.B. Nolli, 1742 168
4.6b Pons Neronianus, pier 168
4.7 Circus of Caligula and Nero, Pirro Ligorio, Anteiquae Urbis Imago, 1561 (C. Losi edition 1773), plate 9 172
4.8 Vatican obelisk 173
4.9 Ostia harbor, sestertius, Rome, c.64–68, New York, American Numismatic Society, inv. 1954.203.155 175
4.10 Nero, Annona and Ceres, sestertius, Rome, c.64–68, New York, American Numismatic Society, inv. 1957.172.1542 178
4.11 Nero, Roma, denarius, Rome, c.64–68, New York, American Numismatic Society, inv. 1944.100.39426 187
4.12 Nero, Temple of Vesta, aureus, Rome, c.64–58, New York, American Numismatic Society, inv. 1944.100.39428 188
4.13 Arcus in Sacra Via Summa, Tomb of the Haterii, Rome, Musei Vaticani, Museo Gregoriano Profano, inv. 9997 189
5.1 Nero, type 3, aureus, Rome, c.59–64, New York, American Numismatic Society, inv. 1956.184.20 192
5.2 Nero, type 3, denarius, Rome, c.59–64, New York, American Numismatic Society, inv. 1927.38.45 192
5.3a–d Nero, type 3, Rome, Museo Palatino, inv. 618 193
5.4a Nero type 2/3, Rome, Musei Capitolini, Centrale Montemartini, inv. 2835 195
5.4b Nero type 2/3, Baltimore, Walters Art Gallery, inv. 23.104 (with plaster cast of fig. 4.5a) 195
5.5 Nero, type 3, Florence, Galleria degli Uffizi, inv. 1914.112 198
5.6 Nero type 3/Domitian type 3, Naples, Museo Archeologico Nazionale, inv. 6061 199
5.7 Nero type 3, London, British Museum, inv. 1756, 0102.28 201
5.8 Nero, type 4, sestertius, Rome, c.64–68, New York, American Numismatic Society, inv. 1944.100.39731 202
5.9 Nero, type 4, sestertius, Rome, c.64–68, New York, American Numismatic Society, inv. 1970.156.256 203
5.10a–e Nero, type 4, private collection 204
5.11 Nero, type 4, Munich, Glyptothek, inv. 321 205
5.12 Nero, type 4, Oslo, Nasjonalgalleriet, inv. 1248 206
5.13 Nero, type 3–4, Worcester, Art Museum, acc. no. 1915.23, museum purchase 207
5.14 Ptolemy III Euergetes I, gold mnaeion, Alexandria, c.219–17 BCE, New York, American Numismatic Society, inv. 1997.9.178 209
5.15 Ptolemy VIII, Euergetes II, tetradrachm, Alexandria or Paphos, c.138–7 BCE, New York, American Numismatic Society, inv. 1944.100.75452 210
5.16 Ptolemy VIII, Euergetes II, tetradrachm, Citium, ca. 138–7, New York, American Numismatic Society, inv. 1944.100.78848 210
5.17 Ptolemy VIII, Euergetes II, tetradrachm, Citium, ca. 118–7, New York, American Numismatic Society, inv. 1944.100.78866 210
5.18 Ptolemaic portrait, Copenhagen, Ny Carlsberg Glyptotek, inv. 933 212
5.19 Late Ptolemaic Portrait, Brooklyn, Brooklyn Museum of Art, inv. 70.91 213
5.20 Male portrait statue, Neronian-early Flavian, Naples, Museo Nazionale Archeologico, inv. 6044 219
5.21 Male portrait, Neronian-Flavian, Florence, Galleria degli Uffizi, inv. 1914.74 220
5.22 Charioteer, Rome, Museo Nazionale Romano, Palazzo Massimo alle Terme, inv. 281 222
5.23 Charioteer, Rome, Museo Nazionale Romano, Palazzo Massimo alle Terme, inv. 310 223
5.24 Charioteer, Rome, Museo Nazionale Romano, Palazzo Massimo alle Terme, inv. 290 224
5.25a–c Altar of Arphocas and Corinthus, Rome, Musei Capitolini, Galleria della Congiunzione, inv. NCE 3036 226
5.26 Nero, graffito from the Palatine, after L. Correra (1894) pl. 2.4 226
5.27 Nero, graffito from the Palatine, after BullComm (1877) 166 227
5.28a–b Nero, adlocutio, sestertius, Lugdunum, c.64–68, New York, American Numismatic Society, inv. 1944.100.39779 229
5.29a–b Nero, congiarium, sestertius, Rome, c.64–68, New York, American Numismatic Society, inv. 1937.158.467 229
5.30a–b Nero, type 4, decursio, sestertius, Rome, c.64–68, New York, American Numismatic Society, inv. 1944.100.39371 230
5.31a–b Nero, type 4, decursio, sestertius, Rome, c.64–68, New York, American Numismatic Society, inv. 1937.158.468 230
5.32a–b Nero, type 4, Temple of Janus, sestertius, Rome, c.64–68, New York, American Numismatic Society, inv. 1944.100.39726 231
5.33a–b Nero, type 4, Ara Pacis, as, Lugdunum, c.64–68, New York, American Numismatic Socity, inv. 1953.171.1292 232
5.34 Nero, bronze mirror cover, Paris, Bibliothèque nationale de France, Cabinet des Médailles 1362 233
5.35 Divus Augustus, sestertius, Rome, c.22–23, New York, American Numismatic Society, inv. 1944.100.39213 235
5.36 Nero, type 4, dupondius, Rome, c.64–68, New York, American Numismatic Society, inv. 1944.100.39748 236
5.37a–b Nero, type 4, “Augustus Germanicus,” aureus, Rome, c.64–68, New York, American Numismatic Society, inv. 1957.172.1533 237
5.38a–b Nero, type 4, “Augustus Augusta,” aureus, Rome, c.64–68, New York, American Numismatic Society, inv. 1944.100.39418 237
5.39 Nero/Augustus, Rome, Musei Vaticani, Sala dei Busti 274, inv. 175 238
5.40 Nero/Titus, Florence, Museo Archeologico, inv. 14546 242
5.41 Nero, Nancy Bibliothèque Publique, inv. Camée 1 243
5.42 Nero, Berlin, Staatliche Museen, Antikensammlung, inv. 30219.710 244
5.43 Egyptianizing Nero/Hercules, Rome, Museo Nazionale Romano, Palazzo Altemps, inv. 129270 247
5.44 Amethyst intaglio, Berlin, Staatliche Museen, Antikensammlung, FG2665 251
5.45 Gordian III, Colossus and Colosseum, copper medallion, Rome, 238–44, British Museum, inv. R.5048 251
5.46a–d Neronian cuirass, from Caere, Rome, Musei Vaticani, Muso Gregoriano Profano, 9948 253
5.47 Neronian cuirass, from Susa, Turin, Museo di Antichità, without inv. no. 255
5.48 Altar of Eumolpus and Claudia Pallas, Florence, Museo Archeologico, inv. 86025 256
5.49 Altar of Sol Sanctissimus, Rome, Musei Capitolini, Galleria Lapidaria, inv. 86025 257
5.50 Apollo, Paris, Bibliothèque Nationale de France, Cabinet des Médailles 258
5.51 Apollo/Helios, Jupiter Column, Mainz, Landesmuseum, inv. S 137, Photo © GDKE-Landesmuseum Mainz (Kai Pelka) 260
5.52a–b Nero, Apollo Citharoedus, Rome, c.64–68, New York, American Numismatic Society, inv. 1937.158.476 262
5.53a–b Nero, Apollo Citharoedus, Lugdunum, c.64–68, New York, American Numismatic Society, inv. 1995.11.1558 262
5.54a–b Nero, Apollo Citharoedus, Perinthus, c.64–68, New York, American Numismatic Society, inv. 1944.100.16405 265
5.55 Apollo Citharoedus, Musei Capitolini, Palazzo Nuovo, Atrio, inv. 56 265
5.56 Apollo, Red Triclinium, Murecine 266
5.57 Nero/Domitian, Munich, Glyptothek, inv. 394 268
5.58a–b Diva Poppaea, Diva Claudia, Paneas (Caesarea Philippi), c.65–68, New York, American. Numismatic Society, inv. 2017.38.89 272
5.59a–b Poppaea, Artemis, Acmonea, c.59–65, New York, American. Numismatic Society, inv. 1944.100.49855 272
5.60a–c Poppaea, Rome, Museo Nazionale Romano, Palazzo Massimo alle Terme, inv. 124129 274
5.61 Nero and Poppaea, Xanten 275
5.62 Statilia Messalina, Rome, Museo Capitolino, Stanza degli Imperatori, inv. 424 280
5.63 Statilia Messalina, London, British Museum, inv. 1805, 0703.98 281
5.64 Claudia?, Baia, Museo dei Campi Flegrei, Castello Aragonese, inv. 222740 283
6.1 Neronian pavement, Palatine 287
6.2 Neronian opus sectile, Domus Tiberiana, Palatine 289
6.3a–b Neronian opus sectile, Domus Tiberiana, Palatine 290
6.4a–c Neronian giallo antico pilaster capitals, Domus Tiberiana, Palatine 291
6.5 Sunken Nymphaeum suite, Domus Transitoria, Palatine, plan Joanna Mundy 294
6.6 Nymphaeum scaenae frons, Domus Transitoria, Palatine 296
6.7 Nymphaeum scaenae frons, Domus Transitoria, Palatine, Francesco Bartoli, Eton College Library, ECL-Bn. 7:100/a.2013 297
6.8 Pavement, Nymphaeum court, Domus Transitoria, Palatine 297
6.9 Dining pavilion, Domus Transitoria, Palatine, Katatexilus, Progetto 2019, Domus Transitoria 298
6.10 Pavement, room A 4, Domus Transitoria, Palatine 299
6.11 Pavement, room A 5, Domus Transitoria, Palatine 301
6.12 Incrustationes, Nymphaeum suite, Domus Transitoria, Palatine, Museo Palatino 302
6.13 Incrustationes, room A 4, Domus Transitoria, Museo Palatino 303
6.14 Ceiling (Telephus, Ulysses, Agamemnon, Achilles and Protesilaos), room A 4, Domus Transitoria, Palatine 304
6.15 Ceiling (Protesilaos, Ulysses, Agamemnon, and Menelaos?), room A 4, Domus Transitoria, Museo Palatino 305
6.16a–b Lunette, room A 4, Domus Transitoria, Museo Palatino 306
6.17 Lunette, room A 4, Domus Transitoria, Museo Palatino 307
6.18 Lunette, room A 4, Domus Transitoria, Museo Palatino 308
6.19 Ceiling, room A 3, Domus Transitoria, Palatine 309
6.20 Lunette, room A 4, Domus Transitoria, Museo Palatino 310
6.21 Room A 2, Domus Transitoria, Naples, Museo Archeologico, inv. 8913 312
6.22a Room A 2, Domus Transitoria, Palatine 313
6.22b Room A 2, Domus Transitoria, Naples, Museo Archeologico, inv. S. Giorgio 313
6.23 Room A 2, Domus Transitoria, Palatine, Naples, Museo Archeologico, S. Giorgio 87 315
6.24 Room A 2, Domus Transitoria, Palatine, Naples, Museo Archeologico, inv. 8913 315
6.25 Room A 2, Domus Transitoria, Palatine, Naples, Museo Archeologico, inv. 8909 316
6.26 Corinthian Column Capital, Museo Palatino, inv. 12484 317
6.27 Tiger, Museo Palatino, inv. 475143 320
6.28a–d Monumental Nymphaeum, Temple of Divine Claudius 322
6.29 Cenatio Rotonda, Palatine 328
6.30 Oppian Wing, Domus Transitoria/Domus Aura, Western Peristyle 329
6.31 Oppian Wing, Domus Aurea 330
6.32a–b Room 44, pre and post fire, Domus Transitoria/Domus Aurea 332
6.33 Polyphemus Nymphaeum, Room 45, Domus Aurea, Oppian Wing 333
6.34 Octagon Suite, Domus Aurea, Oppian Wing 334
6.35a–b Rooms 119 (Achilles on Skyros) and 129 (Sala degli Stucchi), Domus Aurea 335
6.36 Octagon Room (128), Domus Aurea 336
6.37a–b Room 124, fountain cascade, Domus Aurea 337
6.38a Room 123, Domus Aurea 338
6.38b Room 125, Domus Aurea 338
6.39 Room 122, vault-haunch clerestory, Domus Aurea 339
6.40 Room 29 (Sala delle Civette), ceiling, L. Mirri and G. Carletti (1776) 341
6.41 Room 23, ceiling, L. Mirri and G. Carletti (1776) 342
6.42 Room 23, lunette, L. Mirri and G. Carletti (1776) 343
6.43 Room 27, ceiling, L. Mirri and G. Carletti (1776) 344
6.44 Room 31 (Sala della Volta Gialla), ceiling, L. Mirri and G. Carletti (1776) 345
6.45 Room 32 (Sala della Volta Nera), ceiling, L. Mirri and G. Carletti (1776) 346
6.46 Room 33 (Sala della Volta Rossa), ceiling, L. Mirri and G. Carletti (1776) 347
6.47 Room 33 (Sala della Volta Rossa), central pinax, L. Mirri and G. Carletti (1776) 348
6.48 Room 37, ceiling, L. Mirri and G. Carletti (1776) 349
6.49 Room 45 (Polyphemus nymphaeum), ceiling mosaic, Domus Aurea 350
6.50a–b Room 45 (Polyphemus nymphaeum), Domus Aurea 351
6.51a Corridor 50 (Corridoio delle Aquile), ceiling, L. Mirri and G. Carletti (1776) 352
6.51b–d Corridor 50 (Corridoio delle Aquile), ceiling 353
6.52 Corridor 50 (Corridoio delle Aquile), central pinax, L. Mirri and G. Carletti (1776) 353
6.53 Mars and Rhea Silvia, Musei Vaticani, Cortile Ottagono, inv. 917 354
6.54 “Ares Borghese,” Pentagonal Court (80a), Domus Aurea 355
6.55a Corridor 50 (Corridoio delle Aquile), L. Mirri and G. Carletti (1776) 356
6.55b–c Corridor 50 (Corridoio delle Aquile), Domus Aurea 357
6.56a–d Room 80 (Sala della Volta Dorata), ceiling, Domus Aurea 358
6.56e Room 80 (Sala della Volta Dorata), ceiling, Domus Aurea, L. Mirri and G. Carletti (1776) 359
6.57 Room 80 (Sala della Volta Dorata), Francisco de Hollanda, 1538, Cod.Esc. fol. 47 bis-fol.48r, Madrid, Real Biblioteca del Monasaterio de San Lorenzo de El Escorial 360
6.58 Pentagonal court (80a), Domus Aurea 361
6.59a–b Room 119 (Achilles on Skyros), ceiling, Domus Aurea 363
6.60 Achilles on Skyros, Room 119, ceiling, Domus Aurea 364
6.61 Room 119 (Achilles on Skyros), ceiling, Domus Aurea 364
6.62a–b Room 119 (Achilles on Skyros), apse, Domus Aurea 366
6.63a–b Room 119 (Achilles on Skyros), Domus Aurea 367
6.64 Room 119 (Achilles on Skyros), ceiling fragment, London, British Museum, inv. 1908, 0417.5 368
6.65 Room 129 (Hector and Andromache, Sala degli Stucchi), Domus Aurea 368
6.66a Room 129 (Hector and Andromache, Sala degli Stucchi), Domus Aurea 369
6.66b “Coriolanus, Veturia, and Volumnia,” Pietro Santi Bartoli, Le pitture delle grotte di Roma (1708) pl. 1, Atlanta, Emory University, Stuart A. Rose Manuscript Archive and Rare Book Library 369
6.67 Room 123, ceiling Octagon suite, Domus Aurea 371
6.68a–b Corridor 79, Domus Aurea 373
6.69 Corridor 79, Domus Aurea 374
6.70 Corridor 79, Domus Aurea 375
6.71 Corridor 79, Domus Aurea 376
6.72a–e Corridor 92. Domus Aurea 377
6.73a–d Corridor 92, Domus Aurea 378
6.74 Corridor 92, fountain arch, Domus Aurea 379
6.75a–b Corridor 92, ceiling, Domus Aurea 380
6.76a–b Room 85, Domus Aurea 381
6.77a–f Room 86, Domus Aurea 382
6.78 Corridor 92, wall fragment, London, British Museum, inv. 1908,0417.6 383
6.79a Cephisoditus statue base, Rome, Mercati Traianei, FP 132 387
6.79b Parthenocles statue base, Rome, Mercati Traianei, FP 129–31 388
6.79c Praxiteles (or Pasiteles) statue base, Rome, Mercati Traianei, FP 133 389
6.80 Medici Venus, Florence, Galleri degli Uffizi, inv. 1914.224 391
6.81 Vatican Meleager, Musei Vaticani, Sala degli Animali, inv. 490 392
6.82 Italian scent hound, Palazzo dei Conservatori 1110 393
6.83 Apis bull (Torello Brancaccio), Museo Nazionale Romano, Palazzo Altemps, inv. 182594 394
6.84 Ptolemaic Queen or Princess, Rome, Musei Capitolini, Centrale Montemartini, inv. 1154 395
6.85a Terpsichore, Rome, Domus Aurea 396
6.85b Thalia, Rome, Domus Aurea 396
6.86 Amazon, Rome, Domus Aurea 397
6.87a–d Vatican Laocoon, Rome, Musei Vaticani, Cortile Ottagono, inv. 1064 398
6.88 Aldobrandini Wedding, Rome, Musei Vaticani, Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana 399
6.89 Dea Syria and Apollo, Cassiano dal Pozzo, Museo Cartaceo, Windsor Castle, RL 11399, RCIN 911399 401
6.90 Minerva and Harpocrates, Cassiano dal Pozzo, Museo Cartaceo, Windsor Castle, RL 11398, RCIN 911398 402
6.91 Villa of Nero, Subiaco 404
6.92 Corinthian capital, Subiaco 406
6.93 Antium, plan Joanna Mundy 406
6.94 “Fanciulla di Anzio,” Rome, Museo Nazionale Romano, Palazzo Massimo alle Terme, inv. 50170 407
6.95 Bronze krater dedicated to Mithradates VI Eupator, Rome, Palazzo dei Conservatori, inv. 1068 408
7.1 Nero type 4, countermarked dupondius, Lugdunum, c.64–68, New York, American Numismatic Society, inv. 1953.171.1300 416
7.2 Nero type 4, countermarked dupondius, Rome, c.64.68, New York, American Numismatic Society, inv. 1953.171.1 417
7.3 Sepulcrum Domitiorum, Pirro Ligorio, Anteiquae Urbis Imago, plate 4, 1561 (Carlo Losi edition 1773), Atlanta, Emory University Stuart A. Rose Manuscript Archive and Rare Book Library, and Michael C. Carlos Museum 421
7.4 Galba, aureus, Rome, c.68, New York, American Numismatic Society, inv. 1954.256.8 424
7.5 Nero/Galba, Paris, Bibliothèque Nationale de France, Cabinet des Médailles 425
7.6 Otho, denarius, Rome, 68, New York, American Numismatic Society, inv. 1935.117.366 425
7.7 Otho, tetradrachm, Antioch, 68, New York, American Numismatic Society, inv. 1956.127.2285 425
7.8 Nero/Vespasian, Naples, Museo Archeologico Nazionale, without inv. no. 428
7.9 Nero/Titus, Rome, Galleria Borghese, Sala del Ermafrodito, inv. 748 429
7.10 Nero/Titus, Florence, Galleria degli Uffizi, inv. 1914.126 430
7.11 Nero/Domitian, Rome, Museo Nazionale Romano, Chiostro Piccolo della Certosa di S. Maria degli Angeli, inv. 226 432
7.12 Nero/Titus or Domitian, Rome, Museo Nazionale Romano, Chiostro Piccolo della Certosa di S. Maria degli Angeli, inv. 587757 434
7.13a–b Sol, Vespasian, denarius, Rome, c.74, London, British Museum, inv. 1897, 0305.82 437
7.14 Colosseum, Rome 438
7.15 Templum Pacis, Rome 439
7.16 Constantinian prince (“Romulus”), Rome, Torlonia Collection 442
7.17a–b Nero and Circus Maximus, contorniate, Rome, New York, American Numismatic Society, inv. 1944.100.62207 444
7.18a–b Nero and venatio, Rome, London, British Museum, inv. R.4858 449
7.19a–b Nero and pipe organ, Rome, London, British Museum, inv. R.4865 451
7.20a–b Nero and mint, Rome, London, British Museum, inv. R.4860 452
7.21a–b Nero and congiarium, Rome, London, British Museum, inv. R.4881 454
7.22 Nero, Paris, Bibliothèque nationale de France, Cabinet des Médailles 287 455
8.1 Nero, Ambrogio Lorenzetti, Siena, Palazzo Pubblico 467
8.2a–c Martyrdom of St. Peter, Rome, Antonio Filarete, Basilica of S. Pietro 468
8.3a–b Martyrdom of St. Paul, Rome, Antonio Filarete, Basilica of S. Pietro 468
8.4a–b Nero and suicide of Seneca (?), medallion, c.1440–45, Antonio Filarete, Washington, D.C., National Gallery of Art, inv. 1957.14.795a–b 471
8.5 Nero, Musei Capitolini, inv. 398 473
8.6 Faustina (“Poppaea”), Musei Capitolini, inv. 396 474
8.7a–b Martyrdom of St. Peter, Rome, Tempietto 476
8.8 “Sigillo di Nerone,” Apollo, Marsyas, and Olympus, Naples, Museo Nazionale Archeologico, inv. 26051 477
8.9 Nero, Andrea Mantegna, Mantua, Palazzo Ducale, Camera degli Sposi 478
8.10 Nero, Andrea Fulvio, Illustrium Imagines, Rome, 1517, Atlanta, Emory University, Stuart A. Rose Manuscript Archive and Rare Book Library 479
8.11 Nero, Giovanni Battista Cavalieri, Imperatorum Romanorum effigies, Rome, 1583 480
8.12 Nero, Aegidius Sadler, after Titian, 1593 482
8.13 Nero, Giulio Romano, 1536–38, London, Hampton Court 483
8.14 Nero, Jan van der Straet (Stradano), Adriaen Collaert, Philips Galle, Antwerp, c.1587–90, New York, Metropolitan Museum of Art, acc. no. 49.95.1002(6), the Elisha Whittelsey Collection, the Elisha Wittelsey Fund 484
8.15 Nero, Antonio Tempesta, Rome, 1596, New York, Metropolitan Museum of Art, acc. no. 51.501.3479, the Elisha Whittelsey Collection, the Elisha Wittelsey Fund, 1951 485
8.16 Nero, Pietro Aquila, Giovanni Gicacomo de Rossi, Rome 1671, Atlanta, Emory University, Stuart A. Rose Manuscript Archive and Rare Book Library 486
8.17 Nero, type 4, Rome, Musei Vaticani, Biblioteca, Museo Profano 487
8.18 Nero, type 4, Rome, Galleria Borghese, inv. 149 489
8.19 Nero, type 3, Giovanni Battista della Porta, Rome, Galleria Borghese, Salone, inv. 53 490
8.20 Nero, type 3, Rome, Palazzo Doria Pamphilj 492
8.21 “Nero,” Florence, Galleria degli Uffizi, inv. 1914.121 493
8.22a–b Nero, type 4, Florence, Galleria degli Uffizi, inv. 1914.123 494
8.23 Nero, type 4, Abraham Janssens, c.1618–25, Schloss Caputh 496
8.24 Nero/Domitian, restored as Nero type 4, Rome, Musei Capitolini, Palazzo Nuovo, Sala degli Imperatori, inv. 427 497
8.25 Nero, type 4, Galleria Giustiniana, Rome, c.1637 500
8.26 Nero, Peter Paul Rubens, Paulus Pontius, Antwerp, 1638 502
8.27 Madonna del Parto, Jacopo Sansovino, c.1515–16, Rome, S. Agostino 507
8.28 “Agrippina and Nero,” Musei Capitolini, Palazzo Nuovo, Galleria, inv. 243 508