Lupa di Roma-The She-wolf of Rome!

The She-wolf has been a symbol of Rome ever since the founding of the Roman Republic when the Capitoline She-wolf was commissioned by the Senate.  Today it can still be seen in the Capitoline Museums, but you don’t have to go there to see a she-wolf in Rome, she is everywhere!  You can see the She-wolf everywhere you go in Rome today, whether on a garbage can, an AS Roma Jersey, or in the Vatican.  What follows are some pictures of the She-wolf that I’ve taken in Rome so far in my trip.

This is a graffiti painting of the She-wolf that I see everyday on my walk to and from school.

This is a copy of the She-wolf on display outside of the Capitoline museum.

These are some relief sculptures that I found early on in my time here.  I think they were on a church.

This is one of the Polizia boxes that can be found around the city, they all have the She-wolf on them.

This is from a building near the Capitoline Hill, along the ancient Triumphal parade route.

This is above a doorway in a Piazza in Trastevere.

This is the She-wolf on a garbage can.

Here is a different design of the she-wolf, here she isn’t nursing baby Romulus and Remus, she is looking up at them being held by another man, I don’t know who it is supposed to be holding them. This is on one of the fascist building that Mussolini had build around the Mausoleum of Augustus.

These are both images of the she-wolf that no longer survive on the Ara Pacis Augustae, but that from ancient sources we know to have been there.

This is a hedge outside the Capitoline museum that has been formed into the shape of the She-wolf and twins.

This painting is in the Capitoline museums.

This relief sculpture is in the Vatican museums.

This bust is also in the Vatican Museums and you can see a depiction of the she-wolf on the bottom of it.

Here is an ancient coin in the Museo Nazionale Romana-Crypto Balbi that has the she-wolf on it.

And finally, here is the original she-wolf!!!

Anyways, here are all of the she-wolves that I have seen and photographed so far this trip.  As you can see she remains to this day a very important symbol of the city of Rome, and is just another example of the effect of the ancient world on the modern city.