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the Arch of Titus was built in ~81 AD by his brother, Emperor Domitian Google Street View from ~2019 on the left from some angles you can look through it and see the Colosseum https://t.co/IrZqkVVDkG
the Arch has been of interest to painters for centuries – this one was a collaboration between 3 American painters in 1871. Cute story – that's the three of them in the foreground, and Henry Wadsworth Longfellow and his daughter in the background https://t.co/nwBXASTPUa https://t.co/RvzsL1D7ae
This is an older painting by Canaletto, in 1742 you may notice the arch seems to be in worse condition than in later paintings – this is because Pope Pius VII got Giuseppe Valadier to restore it in 1821 https://t.co/FdQqEa6z66
the disrepair is more apparent in this 1740 painting by Panini... https://t.co/Pa5hKHDk1D
