Roman Art and Architecture

The Roman world

Head of a Roman patrician, from Otricoli, Italy, ca, 75_ 50 BCE. Marble approx. 1’2”high . Museo Torlonia, Rome.

A Roman patrician from the reign of Augustus, 1st century

First Style wall painting in the fauces of the Samnite House, Herculaneum, Italy, late second century BCE.

General view (left) and detail of tholos (right) , Second Style wall paintings, from cubiculum M of the Villa of Publius Fannius Synistor, Boscoreale, Italy, ca. 50-40 BCE.

Fresco, 8 9″ high. Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York.′

Gardenscape, second style wall painting from thw villa of Livia, Primaporta, Italy, ca 30_20 BCE. Approx. 6’7”high. Museo Nazinole Romano_ palazzo Massimo alle Terme,

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Detail of a Third Style wall painting, from cubiculum 15 of the Villa of Agrippa Postumus, Boscotrecase, Italy, ca. 10 BCE. Fresco, 7 8″ high. ′ Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York.

Fourth Style wall paintings in room 78 of the Domus Aurea (Golden House) of Nero, Rome, Italy, 64-68 CE.

Fourth Style wall paintings in the Ixion Room (triclinium P) of the House of the Vettii, Pompeii, Italy, ca. 70-79 CE.

Still life with peaches, detail of a Fourth Style wall painting from Harculaneum, Italy, ca. 62_ 79 CE. Approx. 1’ 2” x 1’1 ½ “ Museo Nazionale, Naples.

Maison Carree, Nimes France, ca 1_ 10 CE.

Pont- du- Gard. Nimes France, ca 16 BCE.

Porta Maggiore, Rome, Italy ca. 50 CE

Aerial view (left side) and façade ( right side) of the Colosseum (Flavian Amphitheater ) Rome, Italy,ca 70_80 CE.

West facade of the Arch of Titus, Rome, Italy, after 81 CE.

Arch of Tarjan, Benevento, Italy, ca 114_ 118 CE

Aerial view of the Pantheon, Rome, Italy, 118-125 CE.

Interior of the Pantheon, Rome, Italy, 118-125 CE.

Byzantine Chapel interior

South facade of the Arch of Constantine, Rome, Italy, 312-315 CE.

Colossal head of Constantine, from the Basilica Nova, Rome, Italy, ca. 315-330 CE. Marble, 8 ′6″ high. Musei Capitolini-Palazzo die Conservatori, Rome.