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“Ancient art was the tyrant of
egypt, the mistress of Greece,
and the servant of Rome”
-Henry Fuseli
Art in Ancient Rome
Republican Period
Early Empire
Late Empire
Rome
In about 500 BCE
the Roman Republic
was established and
it would last some
four centuries.
The Roman Arm of strength reached into
northern Italy, conquering the ETRUSCANS,
and eventually streched in all directions,
gaining supremacy over Greece, western
Europe, northern Africa, and parts of the
Near East.
Roman Art
It was fashionable for romans to own or to
have copies of Greek works of art.
- - This tendency gave the romans a
reputation as mere imitators of greek
art, a simplistic view laid waste by
scholars of Roman art history.
The art that followed the
absorption of Greece into
the Roman Empire is
often called
Greco-Roman.
The Republican
Period
The Roman System of
Government
was based on two parts:
 Patricians – Ruled the country
 Plebian – Majority of roman population
Sculpture
Head of a Roman
(Republican Period,
1st century BCE)
Copyright The metropolitan Museum of Art
New York
It was customary for
romans to make wax
death masks, why?
Because they want to
keep around on their
house their loved ones.
This is made of:
TERRACOTA - is a clay-based
unglazed ceramic.
Architecture
Temple of Fortuna Virilis
(Republican Period,
2nd century BCE)
Copyright Canali Photobank
Milan
This small and elegant building
was made by the ff. :
TUFA
TRAVERTINE
STUCCO
Ulysses in the land of the lestrygonians
Painting
This is an example of the
architectural style in which the
illusion of recreating space is
achieved through pictorial devices.
It is as if viewer were looking
through a window and into the
distance.
 Herringbone Perspective – a system
whereby othogals vanish a specific
point along a vertical line that divides
the canvas.
 Othogals means mutually
independent, non-redundant, nonoverlapping
Early Empire
Architecture
Pont du Gard Nimes, France
This structure has been long
admired for both its simplicity and
its grandeur.
With the birth of the empire there
emerged a desire to glorify the
power of Rome by erecting
splendid buildings and civic
monuments.
Although the romans adopted
structural systems and certain
motifs from greek architecture,
they introduced several
innovations in building design.
SCULPTURE
Augustus of
Primaporta
The head of the augustus is
somewhat idealized and serene,
but his unique facial features are
recognizable as those that
appeared on empire coins.
As the first emperor Augustus
was determined to construct
monuments reflecting the glory,
power and influence of rome on
the western world.
Late Empire
During its late years, the roman empire was
torn from within. A series of emperors
seized the reigns of power only to meet
violent deaths, some at the hands of their
own soldiers
ARCHITECTURE
Basilica of Maxentius and Constantine
Stoicism advocated an
indifference to emotion
and things of this world,
maintaining that virtue
was the most important
goal in life
SCULPTURE
Head of Constantine
the great
It was a a huge structure, it is
divided into three rectangular
sections or aisles.
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Etruscan
Augustus of Primaporta
Imperial Procession
The Pantheon Rome
Exterior View
The Pantheon Rome
Interior View
HERZOG & DE MEURON
Colesseum, Rome