Palatine Hill, Rome

The Palatine Hill grew from one of Rome's earliest settlements into the site of the imperial palaces, leaving a dense field ...

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The Palatine Hill grew from one of Rome's earliest settlements into the site of the imperial palaces, leaving a dense field of ruins above the Forum that Victorian artists and excavators explored in detail. Prints of 1872 and 1877 show the Nova Via, the Palace of the Caesars, the wall of Romulus and the Porta Mugonia, with views out to the Circus Maximus, the Coelian and the Colosseum. Later subjects include the Flavian Basilica and the Library of Domitian, both from 1905, and William Wiehe Collins's view of 1911. The plans chart the digs, from an 1872 plan of the excavations to Baedeker's ground plan of 1909 and a vintage plan of 1956.

The Palatine Hill grew from one of Rome's earliest settlements into the site of the imperial palaces, leaving a dense field of ruins above the Forum that Victorian artists and excavators explored in detail. Prints of 1872 and 1877 show the Nova Via, the Palace of the Caesars, the wall of Romulus and the Porta Mugonia, with views out to the Circus Maximus, the Coelian and the Colosseum. Later subjects include the Flavian Basilica and the Library of Domitian, both from 1905, and William Wiehe Collins's view of 1911. The plans chart the digs, from an 1872 plan of the excavations to Baedeker's ground plan of 1909 and a vintage plan of 1956.

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