Ancient Roman & Etruscan Art

Map of Italy showing key sites (Source)

Ancient Etruscan Art

Apollo, from Veii, Italy, c. 510–500 BCE, painted terracotta, 5’11”. (Source).

Model of an Etruscan temple, c. sixth century BCE, as described by Vitruvius, Istituto di Etruscologia e di Antichità Italiche, Università di Roma, Rome. (Source)

Sarcophagus with Reclining Couple, Cerveteri, Italy, 520

BCE. (Source)

Cerveteri Necropolis, Italy, ninth–third centuries BCE. (Source)

Ancient Rome

• 753 BCE Founding of Rome• 509 BCE Period of kings comes to and end; Rome becomes

a Republic• 275 BCE Rome controls all of the Italian Peninsula• 150 BCE Rome controls Greece• 31 BCE Rome controls Gaul and Egypt• 27 BCE Imperial Period begins with Augustus• 313 CE Emperor Constantine ends the persecution of

Christians• 330 CE Constantine moves the capital of the Roman Empire

to Constantinople (Byzantium), initiating the Byzantine Era

Roman Expansion in the Republican Period. Red = original area of Rome.

Roman Empire c. 117 CE (Source)

Realism and Portraiture

Aulus Metellus, c. 100 BCE, bronze, 5’11”. (Source)

Detail of inscription on toga (Source)

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Pompey the Great, copy of a sculpture originally made c. 50 BCE, marble (Source)

Augustus of Primaporta, 63 BCE–14 CE, marble,Vatican Museum, Rome. (Source)

Polykleitos, Doryphoros, Romancopy of Greek original. (Source)

Augustus of Primaporta, 63 BCE–14 CE, marble, Vatican Museum, Rome. (Source)

Aulus MetellusAugustus of Primaporta, 63 BCE–14 CE, marble, Vatican Museum, Rome. (Source)

View of Garden at the Villa Livia, Primaporta, c. 20 BCE, fresco. (Source)

View of Garden at the Villa Livia, Primaporta, c. 20 BCE, fresco.

View of Garden at the Villa Livia, Primaporta, c. 20 BCE, fresco (with details).

-verism in painting-atmospheric perspective: stronger lines and darker colors emphasize objects in the foreground

Interior from the Villa of Publius Fannius Synistor, Boscoreale,c. 50-40 BCE, fresco, height 11'2”. (Source)

-attempted linear perspective-trompe l’oeil (“fool the eye”) painted architecture

Details from Interior of Villa of Publius Fannius Synistor.

Architecture

Civic Building Projects

Pont du Gard, Nimes, France, first century CE, height 161'. (Source)

Diagram of Roman arch construction

Arch construction,Texas, 1933 (Source)

Pantheon, Rome, c. 120–124. (Source)

Pantheon, Rome, c. 120–124. (Source)

Floor plan, cutaway view, and frontal/profile sketches of the Pantheon. (Source)

Interior views of the Pantheon. (Source)

sold at auction in 2007 for $1,049,000

Thomas Struth, Pergamon III, 2001,photographic print. (Source)

Thomas Struth, Pantheon, 1990,photographic print. (Source)

Arch of Titus, Rome, c. 79-81 CE. (Source)

(detail) “The Siege of Jerusalem”. (Source)

Interior view of the Arch of Titus.

Soldiers’ and Sailors’ Arch, Grand Army Plaza, Brooklyn, NY, 1889-92. (Source)

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Fragments of the Colossus ofConstantine, c. 312 CE, marble,Palatine Museum, Rome. (Source)