{"title":"Bad Boys of Rome","description":"\u003cp\u003eRome produced some of history's most consequential rulers. It also produced some of its most catastrophic ones - and the line between the two was often thinner than the history books suggest.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe Bad Boys of Rome collection presents eleven figures (including two women of notoriety) whose names have echoed through two millennia for reasons that range from genuine atrocity to political inconvenience. \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/legendsketch.com\/collections\/nero\" title=\"Nero Bio \u0026amp; Products\"\u003eNero\u003c\/a\u003e, whose early reign showed real promise before it unraveled. \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/legendsketch.com\/collections\/caligula\" title=\"Caligula Bio \u0026amp; Products\"\u003eCaligula\u003c\/a\u003e, whose four years in power generated a mountain of ancient testimony that modern historians continue to pick apart. Tiberius, one of Rome's most capable administrators, who ended his reign as a paranoid recluse governing an empire from a remote island. Commodus, the gladiator-emperor whose tragedy is inseparable from his father \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/legendsketch.com\/collections\/marcus-aurelius\" title=\"Marcus Aurelius Bio \u0026amp; Products\"\u003eMarcus Aurelius\u003c\/a\u003e. \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/legendsketch.com\/collections\/messalina\" title=\"Messalina Bio \u0026amp; Products\"\u003eMessalina\u003c\/a\u003e and \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/legendsketch.com\/collections\/agrippina-the-younger\" title=\"Agrippina Bio \u0026amp; Products\"\u003eAgrippina the Younger\u003c\/a\u003e, two women whose ambition and ability were indistinguishable from those of the men who condemned them - and who were condemned partly for that reason.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eWhat these figures share is not simply notoriety. They share the misfortune of being remembered almost entirely through the accounts of their enemies - senators, rivals, and writers working decades after the fact with their own agendas. History is rarely as black and white as its verdicts suggest, and Roman history least of all. The portraits are rendered in a duotone woodcut and vintage engraving style with dramatic lighting and classical Roman gravitas. Each figure is treated with the seriousness they deserve: not celebrated for their worst acts, not reduced to caricature, but examined as the complex and often fascinating products of a political system that concentrated absolute power in single individuals and then was surprised by the results.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThese are not simple villains. They are, in many ways, more interesting than that.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eDeeply researched. Distinctively designed. Built for the walls, desks, and daily lives of people who take history seriously.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eAvailable as canvas wall art, spiral notebooks, and magnets.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","products":[{"product_id":"tiberius-canvas-wall-art","title":"Emperor Tiberius - Canvas Wall Art","description":"\u003cp\u003eHe was one of Rome's most capable emperors. He is remembered as one of its most sinister.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThis Tiberius canvas wall art features a dramatic portrait of Rome's second emperor, part of the \u003cstrong\u003eBad Boys of Rome\u003c\/strong\u003e collection. 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What is not seriously disputed is that he made no effort to govern conventionally, that real power rested largely with his mother and grandmother, and that by 222 AD the Praetorian Guard had concluded his cousin Alexander Severus was a more manageable proposition. On 13 March 222 AD, Elagabalus and his mother were killed by the Guard and their bodies thrown into the Tiber. 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