ROMAN SCULPTURE

Karla Williams – AP Art History

Roman HistoryI. Early History

II. Roman Republic 509-27 BCE

III. Roman Empire 27 BCE – 476 CE

1000 BCE Latin speaking tribes in Italy

8th cent. BCE Rome founded Etruscans North; Greek Colonies South

Religion

509 BCE Founding of Republic

500-264 BCE Unification of Italian Peninsula

264-146 BCE Punic Wars with CarthageSubjugation of Hellenistic States

146-27 BCE Collapse of Republic

Expansion through Conquest & Administration

Roman History

Roman Republic 509-27 BCE

Roman Empire 27 BCE – 476 CE

509 BCE Founding of Republic

500-264 BCE Unification of Italian Peninsula

264-146 BCE Punic Wars with Carthage

146-133 BCE Greece & Hellenistic States become a Province of Rome

146-27 BCE Collapse of Republic

Expansion through Conquest & Administration

490-480 BCE Persian Wars480-430 BCE Golden Age (High Classical)431-404 BCE Peloponnesian Wars400-338 BCE Political Upheaval (Late Classical)336-323 BCE Alexander the Great (Hellenistic)

Roman Republic 44 BC

Portrait Busts - verism

I. Roman Republic

Roman Patrician c. 75-50 BCE

Roman

Patrician w. Busts of his Ancestors,1st cent. BCE

Denarius (Coin) with Portrait of Julius Caesar,

c. 44 BCE

Roman Empire 27 BCE – 476 CE

Roman Greek

Doryphoros, PolykleitosAugustus of Prima Porta,

c. 20-10 BC

II. Roman Empire

Roman

Ara Pacis Augustae, Altar, 13-9 BC

Commemorative Sculpture

Close Up

Roman Greek

Imperial Procession, Ara Pacis Altar

Panathenaic Procession, Parthenon

Roman

Arch of Titus, Triumphal Arch, 81 AD

Close Up

Roman Greek

Arch of TitusSpoils from

Temple of Jerusalem

Lapiths & Centaurs, Parthenon

Triumph of Titus

Roman

Column of Trajan, Victory Column, 113 AD

Close Up

Roman Greek

Romans Crossing the Danube into Dacia,

Column of Trajan

Archer Herakles, Trojan War Pediment,

Temple of Aphaia