The Vestal Virgin Tuccia (Italian: La Vestale Tuccia) or Veiled Woman (Italian: La Velata) is a marble sculpture created in 1743 by Antonio Corradini... 11 KB (1,085 words) - 05:48, 10 August 2023 |
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... 8 KB (974 words) - 20:10, 13 August 2023 |
Tarpeia (category Vestal Virgins) 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... 17 KB (2,172 words) - 20:15, 11 March 2024 |
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... 2 KB (201 words) - 11:33, 22 May 2023 |
Vesta (mythology) (category Virgin goddesses) 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... 38 KB (4,763 words) - 19:29, 1 May 2024 |
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... 1 KB (189 words) - 14:46, 19 April 2023 |
presiding over them in person. He married four women, including a Vestal Virgin, in addition to lavishing favours on male courtiers thought to have... 75 KB (7,947 words) - 12:36, 13 April 2024 |
Rhea Silvia (category Vestal Virgins) 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... 14 KB (1,342 words) - 19:44, 29 April 2024 |
Tuccia (category Vestal Virgins) Tuccia (3rd-century BC), was an ancient Roman Vestal Virgin. Its supposed by her cognomen that she belonged to the Gens Tuccia. She is known for an incident... 5 KB (607 words) - 03:57, 2 April 2024 |
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... 14 KB (1,231 words) - 08:55, 12 April 2024 |
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;... 2 KB (206 words) - 13:07, 28 March 2024 |
Temple of Vesta (redirect from Temple of the Vestals) 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... 16 KB (2,046 words) - 06:24, 23 April 2024 |
her coup attempt on brother Commodus. Aquilia Severa (3rd century), Vestal Virgin and wife of Elagabalus. Clodia (1st century BC), possibly Catullus's... 10 KB (665 words) - 20:55, 25 April 2024 |
"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... 11 KB (1,237 words) - 17:45, 22 April 2024 |
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... 5 KB (701 words) - 13:13, 11 August 2023 |
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... 2 KB (288 words) - 16:28, 21 January 2024 |
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... 10 KB (1,154 words) - 21:42, 18 April 2024 |
Licinia (section Vestal Virgins) 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... 9 KB (1,120 words) - 11:52, 18 October 2021 |
Art. Vestal Virgin Tuccia, 1743 sculpture Modesty, 1752 sculpture Veiled Christ, 1753 sculpture Veiled Vestal 1847 sculpture The Veiled Virgin, mid-19th... 7 KB (636 words) - 22:57, 30 April 2024 |
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... 6 KB (636 words) - 15:28, 15 November 2023 |
their city was founded by Romulus, son of the war god Mars and the Vestal virgin Rhea Silvia, fallen princess of Alba Longa and descendant of Aeneas... 42 KB (5,466 words) - 03:46, 26 April 2024 |
Aquilia Severa (category Vestal Virgins) 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... 4 KB (368 words) - 16:07, 25 February 2024 |
The House of the Vestal Virgins (Latin: Atrium Vestae; Italian: Casa delle Vestali) was the residence of Vestal Virgins, located behind the circular Temple... 4 KB (391 words) - 17:52, 8 January 2024 |