Hadrian’s Wall in Britain “and a host of other monuments, attest to his taste, activity, and power,” French romantic writer Chateaubriand noted in 1803 on a visit to the emperor’s villa at ...

This is a damaged cast of a well-preserved marble relief of a youth with a horse and dog from Hadrian's Villa at Tivoli housed at the British Museum. The boy, facing left and nude except for the ...

Near Tivoli, the Villa Adriana (or Hadrian's Villa) comprises 120 hectares of palaces, thermal baths and gardens. Conceived as an “ideal city” by Emperor Hadrian in the 2 nd century ...