Transcript Ancient Etruscan & Roman Art & Architecture Etruscans “She-Wolf” 500 BC 33 in.
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, Italy ca. 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
1 st 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 1 st 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 Constantine
Rome 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 Precession
In 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.