ancient etruscan & roman art & architecture. etruscans “she-wolf” 500 bc 33 in. high...
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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, Italyca. 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 ConstantineRome 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 PrecessionIn 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