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    Hadrian's Villa (Italian: Villa Adriana; Latin: Villa Hadriana) is a UNESCO World Heritage Site comprising the ruins and archaeological remains of a large...
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    summer. Hadrian's Villa at Tibur (Tivoli) was in an area popular with Romans of rank. Cicero had several villas. Pliny the Younger described his villas in...
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    collector of antiquities, and it gave him jurisdiction over the site of Hadrian's villa and other sites just being excavated. He did not give up his ambition...
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    (2004). "Hadrian's Serapeum in Rome". American Journal of Archaeology, 108(2), 223–266. "Archaeologists Have Found the Roman Emperor Hadrian's Palatial...
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    Antinous (category Hadrian)
    lover of the Roman emperor Hadrian. Following his premature death before his 20th birthday, Antinous was deified on Hadrian's orders, being worshipped in...
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    found at Hadrian's Villa at Tivoli. Hadrian's great-nephew, Gnaeus Pedanius Fuscus Salinator, from Barcino (Barcelona) would become Hadrian's colleague...
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    head from Hadrian's Villa (cryptoporticus at the temple of Knidian Aphrodite) Portrait of Antinous, Hadrian's lover, from Hadrian's Villa The entrance...
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    which was intended to remind the viewer of the similar "Canopus" at Hadrian's Villa— another programmatic connection of the Pamphili with Antiquity. Girolamo...
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    scholars think it is a copy of the original that was made for Hadrian. The Hadrian's villa mosaic has in turn been copied many times in many formats. Citations...
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    the tallest building in Rome. The tomb of the Roman emperor Hadrian, also called Hadrian's mole, was erected on the right bank of the Tiber, between AD...
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    Tibur (Tivoli and Frascati), such as at Hadrian's Villa. Cicero allegedly possessed no fewer than seven villas, the oldest of which was near Arpinum, which...
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    many Roman villas. The most famous one, of which the ruins remain, is the Villa Adriana (Hadrian's Villa). Maecenas and Augustus also had villas at Tibur...
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  • Pannini to the site of the Odeum, a Roman theatre on the estate of Hadrian's Villa, to report on the rumours that the Bulgarini family had been stripping...
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    Baiae (category Roman villas in Italy)
    before Hadrian, nor anything that remotely resembled them. Indeed domes with the same design as this building can be found in Hadrian's Villa in Tivoli...
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    decorative features in the Roman style may be called a "villa" by modern scholars. Some, like Hadrian's Villa at Tivoli, were pleasure palaces such as those that...
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    Pantheon, Rome (category Hadrian)
    which the decorative scheme should be credited to Hadrian's architects is uncertain. Finished by Hadrian but not claimed as one of his works, it used the...
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    copies, the deceased figure in Hadrian's copy is wounded on the back. This has been interpreted as evidence that Hadrian's copy was meant to represent Menelaus...
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    lost encaustic painting was discovered in the Temple of Serapis at Hadrian's Villa, near Tivoli, Lazio, Italy, that depicted Cleopatra committing suicide...
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    frameworks, all probably influenced by the Imperian Roman remains of Hadrian's Villa, Tivoli. Michelangelo worked on drawings following the Pope's scheme...
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    400-year-old Hadrian's Villa, built by the Roman emperor Hadrian, removing marbles and statues from it to decorate his own villa, the Villa d'Este. Ippolito...
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    usage of opus reticulatum was the Phlegrean Baths and a complex in Hadrian's Villa in Tivoli.: 264  Opus reticulatum’s downfall was caused by the technique's...
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    Scotland, which briefly superseded Hadrian's Wall before being abandoned, was declared a World Heritage Site in 2008. Hadrian's Wall marked the boundary between...
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    she is saved by Eve, who kills Raymond. Villanelle and Eve escape to Hadrian's Villa (Teatro Marittimo, Tivoli, Lazio) and have an argument there. Villanelle...
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    The Villa Farnese, also known as Villa Caprarola, is a pentagonal mansion in the town of Caprarola in the province of Viterbo, Northern Lazio, Italy, approximately...
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    Agrippa. The temple of Matidia (Hadrian's mother-in-law) also likely stood just to the west of the Temple of Hadrian so it has further been argued for...
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    emperor Hadrian . He is depicted as the god Dionysus with a bronze vine wreath on his head. The bust is believed to have been found at Hadrian's Villa in Tivoli...
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    symmetry and layout of the great Renaissance gardens nearby at Villa Farnese, and Villa Lante. Next to a formal exit gate is a tilting watchtower-like...
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    after the ones of the Villa Doria Pamphili and Villa Ada. The gardens were developed for the Villa Borghese Pinciana ("Borghese villa on the Pincian Hill")...
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    Bove Castello Orsini-Odescalchi Frascati Hadrian's Villa Ostia Antica Villa Aldobrandini Villa d'Este Villa Farnese Events and traditions Festa della...
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    clinging to her. This was likely the same painting discovered in emperor Hadrian's Villa in 1818, now lost but described in an archaeological report and depicted...
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