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The Ludovisi Battle sarcophagus or "Great" Ludovisi sarcophagus is an ancient Roman sarcophagus dating to around AD 250–260, found in 1621 in the Vigna...

Ludovisi can refer to: Ludovisi (family), a noble Italian family Ludovisi papacy of Pope Gregory XV Cardinals Ludovisi Cardinal Alessandro Ludovisi, later...

the Hagia Sophia in Constantinople, and exclusively in the Herculean Sarcophagus of Genzano now in the British Museum. Additionally, it was used in the...

Portonaccio sarcophagus is the best known and most elaborate of the main Antonine group, and shows both considerable similarities to the Great Ludovisi sarcophagus...

Portonaccio sarcophagus is the best known and most elaborate of the main Antonine group, and shows both considerable similarities to the Great Ludovisi sarcophagus...

became crucial to the success of the Syracusans. Macedonian Alexander the Great effectively deployed his cavalry forces to secure victories. In battles...

Such individuals include Julius Caesar, Attila, Ermanaric, Theodoric the Great and Charlemagne. Accounts of the history of the Goths play and important...

contact with various nomadic peoples, so that the armies of Theodoric the Great were primarily horsemen. The three main types of warfare carried out during...

is repeated with little variation on later hunting sarcophagi. Great Ludovisi sarcophagus Ranuccio Bianchi Bandinelli and Mario Torelli, L'arte dell'antichità...

during excavations for the building of the Villa Ludovisi (commissioned by Cardinal Ludovico Ludovisi, nephew of Pope Gregory XV), on the site of the ancient...

encouraging compositions extremely crowded with figures, like the Ludovisi Battle sarcophagus (250–260 CE). These are also seen in the enormous strips of reliefs...

Hellenistic group in bronze commissioned for Pergamon in about 228 BC. the Ludovisi Throne (probably an authentic Greek piece in the Severe style), found in...

century, most importantly the Ostrogoths. Under their king Theodoric the Great, these Goths established an Ostrogothic Kingdom in Italy at Ravenna. The...

art. Many of the masterpieces found in the area, and which came from the Ludovisi collection, are now on display at the Roman National Museum in Palazzo...

century when Cardinal Ludovico Ludovisi, nephew of Pope Gregory XV, purchased the site and constructed the Villa Ludovisi, many important sculptures were...

Quirinus, after whom the hill was named. During the reign of Constantine the Great, the last complex of Roman baths was built here, as the statues of the twins...

seventh step in front of the middle door of the church. I am told that the sarcophagus now used as a fountain, in the court of the Swiss Guards, was discovered...

Ages and was credited with magical powers. The emperor Constantine the Great remodeled the statue's face as his own. In the 8th century, an epigram attributed...

altar erected by Leo I. The position was directly over Saint Paul's sarcophagus. In that period, there were two monasteries near the basilica: Saint...

apparently date to 170–210, made in Rome or in some cases Athen. The Ludovisi Battle sarcophagus of about 250-260 is a late outlier, with the Roman commander...