In ancient Rome, the Vestal Virgins or Vestals (Latin: Vestālēs, singular Vestālis [wɛsˈtaːlɪs]) were priestesses of Vesta, virgin goddess of Rome's sacred...

The Vestal Virgin Tuccia (Italian: La Vestale Tuccia) or Veiled Woman (Italian: La Velata) is a marble sculpture created in 1743 by Antonio Corradini...

Devonshire during an 1846 trip to Naples. It is a representation of a Vestal Virgin, the priestesses of the Ancient Roman goddess Vesta. The subject was...

Rossi and Raffaelle Monti. Vestal Virgin Tuccia, 1743 sculpture Modesty, 1752 sculpture Veiled Christ, 1753 sculpture Veiled Vestal 1847 sculpture The Veiled...

century BCE), daughter of the Roman commander Spurius Tarpeius, was a Vestal Virgin who betrayed the city of Rome to the Sabines at the time of their women's...

which Corradini based Modesty is his Vestal Virgin Tuccia, sculpted in Rome in 1743. Pudicitia Veil of Isis Vestal Virgin Tuccia, 1743 sculpture Veiled Christ...

The Vestal Virgin is an oil-on-canvas painting by the French artist Jacques-Louis David. Its date is unknown, but Antoine Schnapper estimates it between...

Temple of Vesta Vestal Virgin, a priestess of Vesta Vestalia, an ancient Roman religious festival in honor of Vesta Vestal, New York HMS Vestal, the name of...

Tuccia (3rd-century BC), was an ancient Roman Vestal Virgin. Its supposed by her nomen that she belonged to the Gens Tuccia. She is known for an incident...

priestesses of Vesta, known as Vestal Virgins, administered her temple and sustained its sacred fire. The existence of Vestal Virgins in Alba Longa is connected...

son, then forced Rhea Silvia to become a Vestal Virgin, a priestess of the goddess Vesta. As Vestal Virgins were sworn to celibacy, this would ensure...

were extinguished it might be assumed that a Vestal had been unchaste. The penalty for a Vestal Virgin found to have had sexual relations while in office...

Licinia (flourished 1st century BC), a Roman Vestal Virgin. She known in history for the case against her for incest with her cousin Marcus Licinius Crassus...

presiding over them in person. He married four women, including a Vestal Virgin, in addition to lavishing favours on male courtiers thought to have...

in Rome, as in the novel and film Quo Vadis?. Pomponia Rufina was a Vestal Virgin under the Emperor Caracalla (reigned 211–217). Caracalla ordered her...

house") and the House of the Vestal Virgins, and founded the priestly order of Vestal Virgins. At first there were just two Vestals, but by the end of the Republic...

hiding there, Julius Caesar (Kenneth Williams) arrives to consult the Vestal Virgins, but an attempt is made on his life by his bodyguard, Bilius (David...

La vestale (The Vestal Virgin) is an opera composed by Gaspare Spontini to a French libretto by Étienne de Jouy. It takes the form of a tragédie lyrique...

to remove power from his brother for himself. Rhea Silvia was made a Vestal Virgin by Amulius, rendering her unable to have children on pain of death;...

Dawn spacecraft in 2011. It is named after Rhea Silvia, a mythological vestal virgin and mother of the founders of Rome, Romulus and Remus. The name Rheasilvia...

"scandalous accounts of Nero's sexual aberrations," between his raping a Vestal Virgin and committing incest with his mother. Some think Nero used his marriage...

at their master's command, arrest Roman citizens and punish them. A Vestal Virgin was accorded a lictor when her presence was required at a public ceremony...

Aemilia, Licinia and Marcia were Roman vestal Virgins, who were prosecuted for having broken the vow of chastity in two famous trials between 115 and 113...

which may be confused with cornrows. The traditional hairstyle of Roman Vestal Virgins, the sini crenes, also incorporates two braids that resemble cornrows...

the throne. He forced Rhea Silvia, Numitor's daughter, to become a Vestal Virgin, a priestess of Vesta, so that she would never bear any sons that might...

of the river. Claudia Quinta, a Roman Matron, later identified as a Vestal Virgin, prayed to Cybele for prodigious strength, and was able to wrench the...

Elagabalus. She was the daughter of Gaius Julius Severus. Severa was a Vestal Virgin and, as such, her marriage to Elagabalus in late 220 was the cause of...

Prudentius mentions the thumb gesture (converso pollice), used by a Vestal virgin who delights in the carnage: The notion of the pollice verso thumb signal...

Postumia was a vestal virgin (Latin: sacerdos vestalis) of Rome accused of the crime of incestum in 420 BC and acquitted of the crime. Other than Postumia's...

the vestal, and he was acquitted by the judges. But he did not let Licinia go until he had acquired her property." Licinia became a Vestal Virgin in 85...