The Vivarium of Lucullus, 1833 (etching with brown wash)

Engraved by Pietro Fontana (1762-1837); from 'Recueil des vues au bister dessinees et lavees par Callimachus, Souvenirs d'antiquites et curiosites de Rome et des environs, Deblayements et reparations du Pape Pie VII'; Pope Pius VII (1742-1823) Papacy (1800-23) Count Barnaba Niccolo Maria Luigi Chiaramonti; A vivarium is an enclosed area for keeping and raising animals or plants for observation or research; Lucius Licinius Lucullus (c.118-57 BC) was a Roman general who conquered the eastern kingdoms in the Third Mithridatic War; He built the horti Lucullani on the Pincian Hill, and transformed his estate at Tusculum into a complex for philosophers and scholars;