Ancient

Etruscan & Roman

Art & Architecture

Etruscans “She-Wolf” 500 BC

33 in. high

Capitoline Museum Rome

Sarcophagus of the Married Couple from The

Bandataccia Necropolis, Cerveteri, 6th B.C.

Chimera of Arezzo c. 400 BC bronze Florence Museo Archeologico Nazionale

Temple of Fortuna Virilis

Rome

c. 75 BC

Head of a Roman

Patrician

Roman Republic

Otricoli, Italyca. 75-50 BCE

marble

Portrait of a woman of the Flavian period, marble, c. AD 90. In the Capitoline Museums, Rome.

Life-size.

Wall decoration from the villa of the mysteries

Pompeii 50 BC

Seated Boxer

By Apollionios of Athens

150 BC

Rome

Augustus of Prima Porta

20 BC

Vatican museums

6’8” tall

Woman Playing A Kithara

1st century BC

Roman Patrician with Busts of his Ancestors

30 BC

Capitoline Museum

Rome

Corinthian capital

Colosseum Rome 72-80 AD

Aerial view

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Floor of the Colosseum

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The Pantheon Rome 118-125 AD

The current building dates from about 125 AD, during the reign of the Emperor Hadrian, as date-stamps on the bricks reveal. It was totally reconstructed with the text of the original inscription

"M·AGRIPPA·L·F·COS·TERTIVM·FECIT" meaning, "Marcus Agrippa, son of Lucius, three times consul

made it" which was added to the new facade, a common practice

in Hadrian's rebuilding projects all over Rome.

Under the portico, sometimes called by the Greek term pronaos, of

the Pantheon. The Corinthian order of the Pantheon's portico provided a standard for Renaissance and later architects. The columns are 46’ high

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“The Interior of the Pantheon” by Giovanni Panini 1735

Pont du Gard Nimes, France

early 1st century AD

Column of Trajan

Rome

113 AD

Trajan's Column: detail - bottom register of frieze on W. side, watching legionaries crossing a pontoon bridge) - 113 A.D. marble h. of frieze

Trajan's Column: detail - lower registers of frieze on

E. side - Trajan's campaigns against the

Dacians - 113 A.D. marble

Arch of ConstantineRome 312-315 AD

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• Detail of the arch (southern side, left)

Colossal Head of Constantine

330 AD marble height: 8’

The hand; the foot--the disrespectful art historian (5' 8½") gives a sense of scale

The Ara Pacis Augustae (Latin, "Altar of Majestic Peace"; commonly shortened to Ara Pacis) is an altar to Peace, envisioned as a Roman goddess. It was commissioned by the Roman Senate on 4 July 13 BC to honour the triumphal return from Hispania and Gaul of the Roman emperor Augustus, and was consecrated on 30 January 9 BC by the

Senate to celebrate the peace established in the Empire after Augustus's victories. The altar was meant to be a vision of the Roman civil religion. It sought to portray the peace and prosperity enjoyed as a result of the Pax Romana (Latin, "Roman peace") brought about by the

military supremacy of the Roman empire.

Ara Pacis Imperial PrecessionIn 1938 Benito Mussolini built a protective building for the Altar by the Mausoleum of

Augustus (moving the Altar in the process) as part of his attempt to create an

ancient Roman "theme park" as an example of Fascist Italy.

Photo of the Valentino exhibit at the Ara Pacis Museum

Ara Pacis Tellus Relief The Altar is considered

a masterpiece, the most famous surviving example of Augustan sculpture; the figures in the procession are not idealized types, as are typically found in Greek sculpture, but rather portraits of individuals,

some of them recognizable.

Via Sacra Roman Forum