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The Colosseum on a Spring Day
The Flavian amphitheatre, called Colosseum from the colossus or colossal statue of Nero which stood on the velia before it. This picture is taken from an orto belonging to the Barberini on the Palatine, looking across the Arch of Constantine.

Rome painted by Alberto Pisa - 1905

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