Download Roman Patrician with Busts of his Ancestors

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, Italy
ca. 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
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
“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 Constantine
Rome
312-315 AD
• 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 Precession
In 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