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In ancient Rome, the Vestal Virgins or Vestals (Latin: Vestālēs, singular Vestālis [wɛsˈtaːlɪs]) were priestesses of Vesta, virgin goddess of Rome's sacred...

The Vestal Virgin Tuccia (Italian: La Vestale Tuccia) or Veiled Woman (Italian: La Velata) is a marble sculpture created in 1743 by Antonio Corradini...

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...

Rossi and Raffaelle Monti. Vestal Virgin Tuccia, 1743 sculpture Modesty, 1752 sculpture Veiled Christ, 1753 sculpture Veiled Vestal 1847 sculpture The Veiled...

which Corradini based Modesty is his Vestal Virgin Tuccia, sculpted in Rome in 1743. Pudicitia Veil of Isis Vestal Virgin Tuccia, 1743 sculpture Veiled Christ...

head like a fillet. This piece of clothing appeared in the attires of Vestal Virgins and it is also mentioned as a bridal adornment; it may also have appeared...

of Cassius Dio and the Augusta, he married four women, including a Vestal Virgin, in addition to lavishing favours on male courtiers they suggested to...

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...

Tuccia (3rd-century BC), was an ancient Roman Vestal Virgin. Its supposed by her nomen that she belonged to the Gens Tuccia. She is known for an incident...

were extinguished it might be assumed that a Vestal had been unchaste. The penalty for a Vestal Virgin found to have had sexual relations while in office...

the Vestal Virgins, Roman priestesses who swore an oath to remain chaste for 30 years. The real-life Catiline was accused of seducing a Vestal Virgin, an...

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...

"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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

crown dependency) three conjoined legs  British Virgin Islands (UK overseas territory) — Vestal Virgin  Montserrat (UK overseas territory) — woman  Ascension...

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...

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...