Baths of Agrippa
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The Baths of Agrippa was a structure of ancient Rome, Italy, built by Marcus Vipsanius Agrippa. It was the first of the great thermae constructed in the city, and also the first public bath.
Plan of the Baths of Agrippa
Marble portrait head of Marcus Vipsanius Agrippa, currently in the Louvre
Marble copy of the Apoxyomenos of Lysippus (Pius Clementine Museum, Vatican)
The later Baths of Trajan showing the frigidarium (N), the tepidarium (F), and the caldarium (C), a form which became popular in the late Republic to early Principate. Whether or not the Baths of Agrippa were symmetrical remains unknown due to the scant archaeological evidence which has survived.
Baths of Caracalla
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The Baths of Caracalla in Rome, Italy, were the city's second largest Roman public bath complex, or thermae, after the Baths of Diocletian. The baths were likely built between AD 212 and 216/217, duri
The baths as viewed from the southwest. The caldarium would have been in the front of the image
Engraving of the Baths of Caracalla by Abraham-Louis-Rodolphe Ducros, ca. 1780
Fresco of Dionysus from triclinium ceiling of home incorporated into Baths of Caracalla (Rome)
Overview plan