Click to deep-zoom
Quo Vadis
Nero with his lyre, Rome on fire.
What
A 1913 American one-sheet chromolithograph for Quo Vadis, the Cines photo drama George Kleine presented in the United States.
Why
Enrico Guazzoni directed it from Henryk Sienkiewicz's 1896 novel, with 5,000 extras and a running time of two hours.
Notice
The caption "NERO SINGS WHILE ROME BURNS" runs along the foot, and the Kleine cross emblem sits at top left.
“An empire burning on one sheet”
Format
The full-resolution, color-managed file — restored honestly, yours to print and keep.
Size
$29.00
Provenance
- Film
- Quo Vadis (1913), dir. Enrico Guazzoni
- Country / studio
- Italy · Cines
- Printer / stone
- The National Ptg. & Eng. Co., Chicago, New York, St. Louis
- Format
- One-sheet (27 × 41 in.)
- Poster published
- U.S. one-sheet, chromolithograph, 1913
- Source
- Wikimedia Commons (Library of Congress scan)
Rights: CLEAR. Public domain — U.S. 95-year rule (poster published 1930 or earlier). Gated by the poster’s own publication year, never the film’s. Cleared by registry on 2026-07-18.
The same film, another screen
.jpg&w=3840&q=75)
From The World Screen
The Double Bill
Two one-sheets, hung as a pair — a double feature for your wall, at a pairing price of $270.00 for the two. Build one from any two one-sheets in the gallery.
Pair it in the gallery →A house of the Provenance family