The Roman Empire is one of the most popular empires in history and although you may think you know about it, I'm going to surprise you with some facts about this era! The Roman development instituted in Italy Penisula during the 8th Century. Rome's first King, Romulus, led the city into a wealthy state and being for the years that he ruled. Romulus had a twin brother named Remus, well thats according to the Roman Legend. When they were both babies, they were abandoned in the area which later became Rome. They were founded by a she-wolf which raised the two two. Unfortunetly, Romulus fought and killed Remus to become the first ruler of Rome. The Roman Army would only accept men to join, no women at all! The Roman Army decided to have two main armies: legionaries and auxiliaries. The legionaries were more elite, every member had to be 17 years or over and a citizen of Rome. If you were a soldier for the auxiliaries you didn't have to be a citizen and you got paid a third of what the legionaries did.
The Birth of Venus
The Birth of Venus (Italian: Nascita di Venere) is a painting by Sandro Botticelli generally thought to have been painted in the mid 1480s. [more]
Charles I Triple Portrait
Charles I in Three Positions, also known as the Triple portrait of Charles I, is an oil painting of Charles I of England by Flemish artist Sir Anthony Van Dyck, showing the King from three viewpoints: left full profile, face on, and right three quarter profile. [more]
The Shrimp Girl
The Shrimp Girl is a painting by the English artist William Hogarth. It was painted around 1740–45, and is held by the National Gallery, London. [more]
Mr. and Mrs. Andrews
Mr and Mrs Andrews is an oil on canvas portrait of about 1750 by Thomas Gainsborough, now in the National Gallery, London. [more]
Flatford Mill
Flatford Mill (Scene on a Navigable River) is an oil painting by English artist John Constable, painted in 1816. It is Constable's largest exhibition canvas to be painted mainly outdoors, the first of his large "six-foot" paintings [more]
The Fighting Temeraire
The Fighting Temeraire tugged to her last berth to be broken up, 1838 is an oil painting by the English artist J. M. W. Turner. HMS Temeraire was one of the last second-rate ships of the line to have played a distinguished role in the Battle of Trafalgar in 1805. [more]
Liberty Leading the People
Liberty Leading the People is a painting by Eugène Delacroix commemorating the July Revolution of 1830, which toppled King Charles X of France. [more]
Ophelia
Ophelia is a painting by British artist Sir John Everett Millais, completed between 1851 and 1852. It depicts Ophelia, a character from Hamlet, singing before she drowns in a river in Denmark. [more]
The Music Lesson
The Music Lesson or Lady at the Virginals with a Gentleman by Jan Vermeer, is a painting of young female pupil receiving the titular music lesson. [more]
