Idealized heroes and athletes’ bodiesHeads were veristic likenessHead and body were an integral wholeMature menElevated the person to heroic status
Portrait Bust of Julius Caesar, from Tusculum, Mid 1st
Century, BCE
Portrait of a Roman General from the sanctuary of Hercules, Tivoli, Italy, c 75-50 BCE
Private portraits;
Mythological themes;
Imperial iconography
Portrait of a Young FlavianLady, c. 90 CE
Augustus as General from Primaporta,c. 20 CE,
commissioned by Tiberius
Augustus of Primaporta: detail showing
cuirass reliefs, ca. 20 B.C.E.
Augustus as General from Primaporta,c. 20 CE,
Polykleitos,Doryphorus, Spear Bearer,450 BCE
Write an Essay Explaining howthe Roman sculptor used Polykleitos’ canon , while sculpting Augustus as General
Funerary reliefs of workers’ tombs, 100 CE
High Empire 96 -192 BCESupreme confidence changed to weariness, sadness and worry.Portraits ended the Classical art’s domination of revealing superiority and captured the emperor’s personality.
Portrait bust of
Hadrian as general,
from Tel Shalem,
Israel,
c. 130-138 CE
Marcus Aurelius, Equestrian Statue, from Rome, Italy, c. 175 CE
Painted Portrait of Septimius Severus and his family, from Egypt,c. 200 CE
Portrait of Caracalla, r. 211-217
Monumental Head of Constantine, from the Basilica of Constantine, Rome, 313.
Constantine, head and fragments from a colossal statue Rome,