Guerra, Giovanni (1542–1618)

• German fugitives surrender to the emperor (XLV); the Romans launch a successful attack (from the middle of L); Marcus Aurelius receives a foreign chief (LI)
• End of a restored part of the column (XLVII); the Sarmatians are pursued into the swamp (XLVIII); the Romans attack a German (?) fortress (beginning of LIV)
• The Romans attack a German fortress (LIV); addressing the troops at the end of the German war (LV); Victoria surrounded by trophies recording Rome’s victory on a shield (LV)
• The Sarmatians surrender (LIII); Germans are led across the Danube (LIX); Germans being accused by Sarmatians before Marcus Aurelius (LX); beginning of a beheading scene (LXI)
• The Sarmatians subject themselves to the emperor (LVI); the Romans attack barbarians (LII)
• The Sarmatian nobles are defeated. Their women and children are taken prisoner (XCVII); departure and battle between the Romans and Sarmatians (middle of LXXVIII)
• Sarmatians before the imperial council (end of LXII, beginning of LXIII); surrounded by guards, Marcus Aurelius and Pompeius on horseback watch a skirmish (XC); German nobles bringing a message (up to the middle of XCI)
• Attack on the Germans (LXIII); their chiefs are captured (partly restored on the column; LXIV)
• Roman cavalry (LXV); a severed head (interpreted as a prisoner by Guerra) and a German prisoner are brought before the emperor (LXVI); Romans advancing (LXVII)
• A German settlement is destroyed (end of LXXI); the fleeing Germans are pursued (LXXII); Women (not depicted by Guerra) and animals are taken away (LXXIII)
• Captured women are taken away (end of LXXIII); parade of the lifeguards (LXXIV); Marcus Aurelius sacrifices at an altar (LXXV); Marcus Aurelius watches an attack (beginning of LXXVI)
• Roman attack (end of LXXVI); barbarian chiefs are taken prisoner (LXXVII); departure for a battle with the Sarmatians (beginning of LXXVIII)
• Battle between the Romans and the Sarmatians (restoration on the column; LXXIX); Marcus Aurelius talks with two companions outside the camp (LXXX); embarkation and passage (LXXXI)
• Roman soldiers building a camp (end of LXXXII); an address (LXXXIII); Romans crossing a river on a pontoon bridge (LXXXIV); women are taken prisoner (beginning of LXXXV)
• Marcus Aurelius receiving a report of the capture of the women (LXXXVI); Marcus Aurelius arrives from a march (LXXXVII); a German chief is taken away (LXXXVIII); the chief’s last men fall (from a bridge which Guerra has not reproduced) (LXXXIX)
• A soldier from the end of scene LXXXIX; German horsemen are conducted to Marcus Aurelius on horseback; Sarmatians routed by Romans (XCII); beginning of a Roman march with their train (XCIII)
• Marcus Aurelius sets out over a wharf with infantry and cavalry (CVIII); the Sarmatians are repulsed by advancing Romans (CIX)
• The Sarmatians negotiating peace (end of CXI, CXII and beginning of CXIII)
• Barbarian fugitives and their animals are brought out of their hiding-place (CXVI); at upper left the end of a cartouche with a scroll (Guerra’s own addition)
• Sarmatian leaders are captured by surprise and their houses set on fire by the Romans (CII); the arrival of legionaries and the emperor (omitted by Guerra) (CIII)
• A Sarmatian village is destroyed under the eyes of the emperor (XCVIII and beginning of IC); barbarians look on from a stand (CVI); Marcus Aurelius receives a mounted German messenger on horseback (CVII)
• Roman archers(?), Roman assault (XCIX); Marcus Aurelius addressing his guards (C); Marcus Aurelius receives a warning (CI)
• Three sedan chairs (end of XLII); the Romans attack a chief’s dwelling (XLIII); the Romans marching back to camp (XLIV)
• Modern restoration (XL); a German chief surrenders (XLI); a visit to the Roman camp (beginning of XLII)
• Marcus Aurelius arrives at the camp while his troops fight off a Sarmatian ambush (XXXIX); The Sarmatians ask for mercy (XL)
• Romans on the march (XXXVI); Marcus Aurelius, Pompeius and an attendant watch the march (XXXVII); a halt on the march (XXXVIII)
• End of a march by the emperor with his legionaries and guards (end of XCIII); the Romans building a camp (beginning of XCIV); the Romans on a march with the emperor (XXXV / XXXVI)
• Roman soldiers crossing a river in boats (largely restoration; XXXIV)2; a fighting Roman soldier (from the end of XXIV); Roman guards bringing barbarian prisoners before the emperor (omitted in the drawing; end of XXV); beginning of a march (beginning of XXVI)
• Barbarians hail the emperor (CXIV); Germans and Sarmatians are brought across the Danube by ship (interpreted differently by Guerra; CXV)
• The besieged Romans receive reinforcements from the other side (end of CIX, CX), the Romans on the march with the emperor; shields in boats are pulled over a bridge on ox-carts
• Madonna and Child on a crescent moon appearing to a group of saints, priests and laymen
• God questioning Adam and Eve after the Fall
• German nobles are beheaded (LXI); Sarmatians before the imperial council (LXII); beginning of a cavalry battle (LXIII)
• The Romans departing for the war against the Sarmatians over a bridge (not depicted by Guerra), on which Pompeius and Marcus Aurelius are standing (LXXVIII); (fragment of) a battle between Romans and Sarmatians (LXXIX)

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