AHTR Roman and Etruscan Art
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Ancient Roman & Etruscan Art
Map of Italy showing key sites (Source)
Ancient Etruscan Art
Apollo, from Veii, Italy, c. 510–500 BCE, painted terracotta, 5’11”. (Source).
Model of an Etruscan temple, c. sixth century BCE, as described by Vitruvius, Istituto di Etruscologia e di Antichità Italiche, Università di Roma, Rome. (Source)
Sarcophagus with Reclining Couple, Cerveteri, Italy, 520
BCE. (Source)
Cerveteri Necropolis, Italy, ninth–third centuries BCE. (Source)
Ancient Rome
• 753 BCE Founding of Rome• 509 BCE Period of kings comes to and end; Rome becomes
a Republic• 275 BCE Rome controls all of the Italian Peninsula• 150 BCE Rome controls Greece• 31 BCE Rome controls Gaul and Egypt• 27 BCE Imperial Period begins with Augustus• 313 CE Emperor Constantine ends the persecution of
Christians• 330 CE Constantine moves the capital of the Roman Empire
to Constantinople (Byzantium), initiating the Byzantine Era
Roman Expansion in the Republican Period. Red = original area of Rome.
Roman Empire c. 117 CE (Source)
Realism and Portraiture
Aulus Metellus, c. 100 BCE, bronze, 5’11”. (Source)
Detail of inscription on toga (Source)
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Pompey the Great, copy of a sculpture originally made c. 50 BCE, marble (Source)
Augustus of Primaporta, 63 BCE–14 CE, marble,Vatican Museum, Rome. (Source)
Polykleitos, Doryphoros, Romancopy of Greek original. (Source)
Augustus of Primaporta, 63 BCE–14 CE, marble, Vatican Museum, Rome. (Source)
Aulus MetellusAugustus of Primaporta, 63 BCE–14 CE, marble, Vatican Museum, Rome. (Source)
View of Garden at the Villa Livia, Primaporta, c. 20 BCE, fresco. (Source)
View of Garden at the Villa Livia, Primaporta, c. 20 BCE, fresco.
View of Garden at the Villa Livia, Primaporta, c. 20 BCE, fresco (with details).
-verism in painting-atmospheric perspective: stronger lines and darker colors emphasize objects in the foreground
Interior from the Villa of Publius Fannius Synistor, Boscoreale,c. 50-40 BCE, fresco, height 11'2”. (Source)
-attempted linear perspective-trompe l’oeil (“fool the eye”) painted architecture
Details from Interior of Villa of Publius Fannius Synistor.
Architecture
Civic Building Projects
Pont du Gard, Nimes, France, first century CE, height 161'. (Source)
Diagram of Roman arch construction
Arch construction,Texas, 1933 (Source)
Pantheon, Rome, c. 120–124. (Source)
Pantheon, Rome, c. 120–124. (Source)
Floor plan, cutaway view, and frontal/profile sketches of the Pantheon. (Source)
Interior views of the Pantheon. (Source)
sold at auction in 2007 for $1,049,000
Thomas Struth, Pergamon III, 2001,photographic print. (Source)
Thomas Struth, Pantheon, 1990,photographic print. (Source)
Arch of Titus, Rome, c. 79-81 CE. (Source)
(detail) “The Siege of Jerusalem”. (Source)
Interior view of the Arch of Titus.
Soldiers’ and Sailors’ Arch, Grand Army Plaza, Brooklyn, NY, 1889-92. (Source)
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Fragments of the Colossus ofConstantine, c. 312 CE, marble,Palatine Museum, Rome. (Source)