Temple of Portunus

Rome, Italy

75 BC

Part Greek and Etruscan style temple

Head of a Roman patrician

Otricoli, Italy

75-50 BC

Republican Verism - Intense realism

Atrium of the House of the Vettii

Pompeii, Italy

rebuilt 62-79 CE

1st Style

Samnite house, Herculaneum, Italy

Late Second Century BC

Fake Mable tiles to emulate wealth

2nd Style

Pompeii, Italy

60-50 BC

people come into our space and move across corners

Interaction with humans and those divine

2nd Style

Boscoreale, Italy

50-40 BC

2nd Style was as had windows looking out into space congruently 3D

Detail of a Third Style wall painting

Boscotrecase, Italy

10 BC

Small picture with dilicate frame out lining it.

Fourth Style wall painting

Ixion Room, house of vettii, Pompeii, Italy

70-79 CE

Mixer of previous three styles that covers vertually the intier wall

Still life with Peaches

Fourth Style

Herculaneum, Italy

62-79 CE

Portrait of Husband and wife

Pompeii, Italy

70-79 CE

Realistic heads on standard bodies people may not have been educated

Portrait of Augustus as general

Primaporta, Italy

20 BCE

Ideal body, breast plate dipicts important political victory, cupid shows his divine descent as ancestor of Venus.

Portrait bust of Livia

Faiyum, Egypt

early 1st century, CE

Shares the empores eternal youthfullness with the latest hairstyle.

Ara Pacis Augustae

(Altar of Augustan Peace)

Rome Italy

13-9 BC

Denotes Augustus's most important achievement

the establishment of peace.

Female personification panel

Pacis Augustae, Rome, Italy

13-9 BC

Show the peace and fertility of the Augustan world.

Procession of the imperial family

Ara Pacis Augustae, Rome, Italy

13-9 BC

To some degree resembles Panathenaic prossesion meant to present Augustus's order as a Golden Age

Maison Carrée

 Nimes, France

1-10 CE

Corinthian order coulums

Severus and Celer

Domus Aurea (Golden House) of Nero

Rome, Italy

64-68 CE

New approach to Architecture.  Octagonal building standing alone inside the rest of the building.

Colosseum (Flavian Ampitheater)

Rome, Italy

70-80 CE

Coloums on outside move up through doric, ionic, and corinthian orders.   Was a political statement it was built on the land that Nero stole form the public

Portrait bust of Vespasian

75-79 CE

Revival of repuclican verism

Portrait bust of a Flavian woman

Rome, Italy

90 CE

People of all ages were depicted during Flavian rule unlike the reaplic where only elder were deemed worthy of depiction. hair was done with drill not chisel

Apollodorus of Damascus

Market of Trajan

Rome, Italy

100-112 CE

Pont-du-Gard

Nimes, France

16 BC

Arch of Titus

Rome, Italy

81 CE

Spoils of Jerusalem

Passageway of the Arch of Titus, Rome, Italy

81 CE

Depicts Tituses victory over Jerusalem.    The Triumphant parade down the Sacred way after the jewish wars in 70 CE.   MANORAH

Triumph of Titus

Arch of Titus, Rome, Italy

81 CE

Victory, Honor, and Valor ride with Titus in his four horse drawn chariot.   Intermingaling of human and divine like the Mysteries frieze at Pompeii.   First to have human and divine in same panel before they were carefully segrated in seperate panesl

Column of Trajan

Forum of Trajan, Rome, Italy

112 CE

128 ft tall, Trajans statue was lost in middle ages and replaced by Saint Peter.   Depicts campaigns against the Dacian and that the Romans were humans but more organized. 

Pantheon

Rome, Italy

118-125 CE

Exeplifies the use fo concrete.  

Arch of Trajan

Benevento, Italy

114-118 CE

Similar to the Arch of Titus but it survives more of a billboard purpose honoring Trajan and his Via Traiana. The end point is in Benevento.

Portrait bust of Hadrian

Tel Shalem, Isreal

130-138 CE

He wore a beard took insperation from greek art of old men.

Hadrain's Villa

Tivoli, Italy

125-128 CE

Us of lintal and arch in combination also had a pumkin shaped thinger at the end suppected to be designed by hardrian. 

Equestrian statue of Marcus Aurelius

Rome, Italy

175 CE

 Super human larger than life also he is large compared to his horse than any human would be.

His had is out streched in an offering of greeting and clemancy at the same time.

Apotheosis of Antininus Pius and Faustina

Pedestal of the Column of Antoninus Pius, Rome, Italy

161 CE

Apotheosis - Ascent to the heavens

Antoninus and his wife who died years earlier are going together

Decursio

Pedestal of the Column of Antoninus Pius, Rome, Italy

161 CE

Ritual circling of the imperial funerary pyre.

Carcophagus with the myth of Orestes

140-150 CE

 Features several pictures of Orestes, a greek hero Slaying his mother.

Mummy portrait of a man

Faiyum, Eygpt

160-170 CE

After Eygpt was reduced to a Roman province burrial practices continued.

Painted portrait of Septimius Severus and his faimly

Egypt

200 CE

Siptimius, Julia and sons Caracalla and Geta

Damnatio Memoriae of Geta

Only surviving Tempora of a Roman Emperor

Portrait of Caracalla

211-217 CE

Depicts his suspicious and ruthless nature

Baths of Caracalla

Rome, Italy

212-216

They ware huge dwarfing all other baths covering almost 50 acres

Portrait bust of Trajan Decius

249-251 CE

Show extrem emotion of an emperor that can not bring order to an out of control Roman world.

Heroic portrait of Trebonianus Gallus

Rome, Italy

251-253 CE

Depicts a Strong wrestlers body and his head is dwarfed by his huge trunk.

Battle of Romans and Barbarians

Rome, Italy

250-260 CE

piling of figures was rejection of classical art.

Notice central figure with no sword thought to be one of Trajan Decius's sons a Confident commandor in caiotic time for Rome

Temple of Venus

Baalbek, Lebanon

Third Century CE

Rejection of classical art also in Architecture.   It is an obvious cretique on the pantheon.

Portrait of the four tetrarchs

Constaninople

305 CE

The sharing of power that reigned in a new era of peace in Rome.