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The Circus of Maxentius is the best-preserved Roman circus in Rome and is second only in size to the Circus Maximus. It lies outside the city, between the second and third milestones along the Appian Way (Via Appia). This circus was part...

Pre-Raphaelites: Modern Renaissance, exhibition installation view, photo by Emanuele Rambaldi. San Domenico Museum, Forlì, Italy.

Pre-Raphaelites: Modern Renaissance, exhibition installation view, photo by Emanuele Rambaldi. San Domenico Museum, Forlì, Italy.

Pre-Raphaelites: Modern Renaissance, exhibition installation view, photo by Emanuele Rambaldi. San Domenico Museum, Forlì, Italy.

Pre-Raphaelites: Modern Renaissance, exhibition installation view, photo by Emanuele Rambaldi. San Domenico Museum, Forlì, Italy.

Lamentation over the Dead Christ, tempera on panel by Beato Angelico, 1436-1441. Museo di San Marco, Florence.

Madonna di Piazza, tempera on panel by Andrea del Verrocchio, 1474-1483. Cattedrale di San Zen, Pistoia

Hera, watercolor, gouache, and possibly waterglass (sodium silicate) on paper stretched on wood panel by Marie Spartali Stillman, c. 1889. Historic New England, Boston.

Flora, oil on canvas by Evelyn De Morgan, 1894 Trustees of the De Morgan Foundation.

Roman Widow, oil on canvas by Dante Gabriel Rossetti, 1874. Museo de Arte de Ponce, Puerto Rico, The Luis A. Ferré Foundation, Inc