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INTRO to the ROMAN EMPIRE
Partial model of the city of Rome during
4th c. CE
Roman Architectural Revolution/Concrete
Construction
ROMAN REPUBLIC
Temple of “Fortuna Virilis” (Portunus),
ca. 75 BCE.
Temple of “the Sibyl” or of “Vesta”
Tivoli, Italy - early 1st century BCE
Aulus Metellus Late 2nd - early 1st
century BCE
Funerary Relief with Portraits of the Gessii
Rome (?), Italy - ca. 30 BC
Head of a Roman patrician,
from Otricoli, Italy, ca 75-50 BCE.
LATE REPUBLIC TO EARLY EMPIRE
Aerial view of the amphitheater,
Pompeii, Italy, ca 80 BCE
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Brawl in the Pompeii amphitheater
Pompeii, Italy, c 60-79 CE
Atrium of the House of the Vettii
Pompeii, Italy, second century BCE,
rebuilt
62-79 CE
FIRST STYLE –simulated material-marble
FIRST STYLE (or Masonry Style)
ROMAN WALL PAINTING
SECOND STYLE – realistic wall murals using an early form of linear
perspective, large !
General view of wall paintings from
Cubiculum M
of the Villa of Publius Fannius Synistor,
Boscoreale, Italy, decorated ca. 50-40
BCE
Dionysiac mystery frieze, Pompeii, Italy,
ca. 60-50 BCE
Wall painting, from the Villa of Livia,
Primaporta, Italy, ca. 30-20 BCE
THIRD STYLE – framed small decorative flat 2-D images with lots of
negative space
Third Style wall painting from Cubiculum
15 of the Villa of Agrippa Postumus,
Poscotrecase, Italy
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FOURTH STYLE - framed 3-D scenes unrelated to each other like
pictures in an exhibition
Atrium of the House of the Vettii,
Pompeii, Italy, second century BCE,
rebuilt
62-79 CE
Neptune and Amphitrite, wall mosaic in
the summer triclinium of the House of
Neptune and Amphitrite Herculaneum.
Italy ca. 62-79 CE.
Portrait of a husband and wife Pompeii,
Italy 70-79 CE
Still life with peaches, detail from a wall
painting; Heraculaneum, Italy; 62-79 CE
EARLY EMPIRE ROME
Augustus of Primaporta, Early 1st
Century BCE EARLY EMPIRE
ROMAN
Ara Pacis, 13-9 BCE.
EARLY EMPIRE ROMAN.
Imperial Procession
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Gemma Augustea, Onyx
ca 1st Century CE,
Maison Caree, Nimes, France, ca.
1-10 CE
Pont-du-Gard, Nimes, France 19 BCE
Pont-du-Gard construction
Aqueduct System
EARLY EMPIRE ROMAN
Colosseum, 72-80 CE.
Colosseum exterior
Colosseum interior
Arch of Titus, Rome, Italy, after 81 CE
Spoils of Jerusalem, relief panel
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from Arch of Titus, after 81 CE
Triumph of Titus, relief panel from Arch
of Titus, Rome, after 81 CE
HIGH ROMAN EMPIRE
Forum of Trajan Rome, 106-112 CE
Forum of Trajan and markets
Basilica Ulpia
TRAJAN’S COLUMN
Celebration of Victory against the Dacians
Rome, 113 CE
Portrait bust of Hadrian as general, ca.
130-138 CE
Hadrian’s Wall, 122-128 CE
Exterior
Pantheon, Rome. 125-128 CE
Interior
Pantheon, Rome. 125-128 CE
Canopus and Serapeum, Hadrian’s Villa
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Al-Khazneh (“Treasury”) Petra, Jordan,
Al-Khazneh (“Treasury”) Petra, Jordan,
Model of an insula, Ostia Italy,
Nepture and creatures of the sea, floor
mosaic in baths of Nepture, Ostia Italy
Equestrian statue of Marcus Aurelius,
Rome, Italy 175 CE
Mummy portrait of a man
Faiyum, Egypt 160-170 CE
LATE ROMAN EMPIRE
Portrait of Caracalla, ca. 211-217 CE.
Marble, approx. 1’2” high
Painted portrait of Septimius Severus
and his family 200 AD,
Baths of Caracalla, Rome,
Italy 212- 216 CE
Commodus as Hercules,
ca. 191-192 AD,
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Ludovisi Battle Sarcophagus
Marble, ca. 250 CE.
Portraits of the Four tetrarchs
St. Mark’s, Venice, 305 CE
Arch of Constantine Rome, Italy
312-315 CE
Distribution of largesse, Arch of
Constantine
Portrait of Constantine, from the
Basilica Nova
Rome, Italy, 315-330 CE
Basilica Nova (Basilica of
Constantine), Rome Italy,
ca. 306-312 CE
Aula Palatina (exterior), Trier ,
Germany, early 4th century
Coins with portraits of Constantine,
billon, silver 307, 315 CE
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