Commodus' Palace Interior

I love this movie because it represents an old-fashioned kind of epic film which is not made anymore. Like "The Ten Commandments", "Ben Hur" , "Lawrence of Arabia" and "Doctor Zhivago", "Fall of the Roman Empire" was one of those lavish, expensive Hollywood productions. The film wss very long but engaging, keeping my attention the whole way through. But my biggest problem is the fact that it's historically inacurrate in more than one way. The book from which it was based was a meticulously researched account of how Rome fell. The characters and events were more believable. This movie is a big love story and drama of power and corruption with flat characters, and strayed from the novel. Worse, there seems to be too much of a 60's signature on it. Some of the colors on Sophia Loren's Roman gowns look too "bright", such as the nearly neon-green robe she wears in one particular night scene. Also, the interior of Commodu's Palace in Rome is too ornate and lavish to the point it could not have been made in that time, that is in the later Roman Empire age, after the death of Marcus Aurelius. The ostentatious facade of some of the rooms look Byzantine, even Romanesque, a period which came years after Rome had fallen. Even the Middle Ages did not see such luxury.
The architecture of Commodus' palace is far too lavish to be historically true to the period.