Roman Sculpture through the High Empire

4th Style wall painting, Ixion room at the House of the Vettii, Pompeii

Head of a patrician, from Osimo, mid-first cent. BC

Sculpture during the Roman Republic

Verism

Head of a patrician, from Osimo, mid-first cent. BC

Portrait of a Roman general, found at Tivoli, Italy, 75-50 BC

←POLYKLEITOS, Doryphoros (Spear Thrower), Roman marble copy from Pompeii, after a Greek bronze original of ca. 450 BC

→Portrait of a Roman general, found at Tivoli, Italy, 75-50 BC

The so-called "Togatus Barberini": a Roman senator holding the imagines (effigies) of deceased ancestors in his hand. Marble, late 1st century BC.

George Washington, sculpture by Horatio Greenough, 1840

Portrait of Augustus as general, from Primaporta, Italy, early 1st cent. CE

Early Empire

Portrait of Augustus as general, from Primaporta, Italy, early 1st cent. CE

Ara Pacis Augustae (Altar of Augustan Peace- Pax Romana),Rome, 13 – 9 BC

Ara Pacis Augustae,

Female personification (image above): Tellus (Mother earth)

Procession of imperial family (right)

Portrait of Vespasian, ca. 75-79 CE. Marble, 1’ 4” high

Arch of Titus, Rome, 81 CE

Relief Panels from the Arch of Titus

Spoils of Jerusalem

Triumph of Titus

Rome, Column of Trajan, dedicated 112 CE

High Empire

Funerary relief of a vegetable vendor, from Ostia, Italy. 2nd cent. CE. Painted terracotta. 1’5” high.

Detail of Column of Trajan showing the start of the first of Trajan's two victorious military campaigns against the Dacians, dedicated 112 CE

Apotheosis of Antoninus Pius and Faustina, pedestal of the Column of Antoninus Pius, Rome, ca. 161 CE. Marble, 8’ high.

U.S. Capitol, Washington D.C. Dome begun in 1855

Interior of dome

Apotheosis of George Washington in the Dome of the Rotunda of the US Capitol painted by Constantino Brumidi in 1863

Equestrian statue of Marcus Aurelius, Rome, ca. 175 CE. Bronze. 11’ high Detail