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[From the Community Collection, a public trust in Agincourt, Iowa]
LACOMBE, P. [dates unknown]
The Forum, Rome
1920s
oil on panel / 13.5 inches by 10.5 inches (unframed)
Lacombe’s painting of the Forum in ancient Rome looks east toward the Colosseum, a view framed by the Arch of Septimus Severus. The columned fragment to the left of center is the Temple of Antoninus and Faustina.
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