We keep on running into various 18th-19th century individuals whose Monuments remind everybody of the Roman Empire. The Western Empire fell (officially that is) in 510 AD. The Holy Roman Empire was dissolved in 1806, but the attire style depicted on those monuments is clearly very very old.

The monuments, if we follow out traditional chronology, were built over a thousand years later. Where was this infatuation with...

Roman monuments to non-Roman individuals