Artist: Severino Baraldi (biography)
Medium: Watercolour on Board
Size: 8" x 8" (195mm x 210mm)
Date: 1981

This is the unique original Watercolour painting by Severino Baraldi.

It was traditional at times when Rome was at war for the doors to the Temple of Janus to be opened. In 526A.D. some old fashioned Senators tried to do just that when Goths attacked Rome. The doors with their hinges rusted shut stayed firmly closed.

From the eighth instalment of a history of Rome with painted art by Severino Baraldi that appeared in Look and Learn issue 1013, published 8th August 1981.