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Quo Vadis: Nero Sings While Rome Burns
George Kleine sets Rome on fire.
What
George Kleine presents the Cines photo drama Quo Vadis: a 1913 chromolithograph of Nero singing while Rome burns, printed by the National Ptg. & Eng. Co.
Why
Kleine copyrighted the poster as the film's American distributor, and the Library of Congress holds it as ppmsc.03509.
Notice
The lyre and the flames carry the sheet; the Commons file is Adam Cuerden's restoration of the Library's scan.
“The emperor's song”
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
- Format
- One-sheet (27 × 41 in.)
- Poster published
- U.S. theatrical poster, chromolithograph, 1913
- Source
- Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs (ppmsc.03509)
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
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