Bocca della Verità
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The Mouth of Truth is an ancient Roman marble mask in Rome, Italy, which stands against the left wall of the portico of the Santa Maria in Cosmedin church, at the Piazza della Bocca della Verità, the
The Mouth of Truth
The Temple of Hercules Victor, in the Forum Boarium
The Mouth of Truth by Lucas Cranach the Elder
Side view of the Bocca della Verità
Temple of Hercules Victor
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The Temple of Hercules Victor or Hercules Olivarius is a Roman temple in Piazza Bocca della Verità, the former Forum Boarium, in Rome, Italy. It is a tholos, a round temple of Greek 'peripteral' desig
Bocca della Verità
…and mouth are open. Historians are not quite certain what the original purpose of the disc was. It was possibly used as a drain cover in the nearby Temple of Hercules Victor, which had an oculus (a round open space in the middle of the roof) similar to that of the Pantheon. Hence, it could rain inside. It is also thought…
C.W. Eckersberg, Vesta Temple in Rome, 1814–1816, Nivaagaards Malerisamling.