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Roman Art: From Republic to Empire
Reading:Stokstad, 168-177
Range:510 BCE-14 CERepublic and Imperial
Terms/Concepts:Latium, republic, senate, verism, patrician, plebian, oligarchy, triumvirate, Augustus, princeps, ara, suovetauralia,
Key Monuments: Portrait of Patrician (“Brutus”)
Roman Republican, c. 1st century BCE
Portrait of Aulus Metellus (“the Orator”), Roman Republican, early 1st century BCE
The Augustus Primaporta, Roman Imperial, 1st century CE
Ara Pacis Augustae (Altar of Augustan Peace). 13-9 BCE.
Patrician Carrying Two Portrait Heads, Roman Republican, c. 1st century CE
When Are We?
Etruscans: c. 800-300 BCERoman Republic: 509 BCE – 27 BCEAugustus: 27 BCE—14 CEJulio-Claudians: 14 CE – 68 CEFlavians: 69 CE – 96 CEThe Five Good Emperors: 96 CE- 180 CESeverans:193 CE – 217 CESoldier Emperors: 217 CE – 284 CETetrarchy: 284 CE – 313 CEConstantinian: 317 CE – 364 CE
Titian, Rape of Lucretia, 16th Century CE
Roman Republic
Portrait of Patrician (“Brutus”), Probably of Etruscan Artistry, Roman Republican, c. 1st century BCE
Portrait of Aulus Metellus (“the Orator”), near Lake Trasimeno, Roman Republican, early 1st century BCE
Patrician Carrying Two Portrait Heads, Roman Republican, c. 1st century CE
Republican Tomb Relief of the Publius Gessius Family, Via Cassia, 30-13 BCE.
The Rise of Julius Caesar
Bust of Julius Caesar, Roman Republican, 1st century BCE
Sestertius of Julius Caesar, c. 45 BCE
Jean-Léon Gérôme. The Death of Caesar. 1859-67. Oil on canvas, 2’4” x 4’11”. Walters Art Museum, Baltimore.
Jean-Leon Gerome, Death of Julius Caesar, 1867.
Rise of Augustus
Octavian Marcus Antonius
The Fall of the Hellenistic World
133 BCE
Attalos III
64 BCE
Pompey
80 BCE
Pompey
31 BCE
Augustus
Bust of Octavian, Roman Republican, c. 39 BCE
The Augustus Primaporta, Roman Imperial, 1st century CE (possible copy of 20 CE original).
Augustus Primaporta, Roman Imperial 1st century CE.
Portrait Head of an Elder. Roman Republican, c.80 BCE.
Augustus Primaporta, Roman Imperial 1st century CE.
Polykleitos, Doryphoros, Roman Copy, 5th Century CE
Augustus of Primaporta, Roman Imperial 1st Century CE
Aulus Metellus (The Orator). Roman Republican c. 80 BCE.
Roman soldier
Cornucopia
Parthian soldier
Roman standard with sculpture of eagle
Apollo on a griffin
Diana on a stag
Sol (Sun) on a chariot
Luna (moon)
Personification of Bounty
Cupid(Eros)
Campus Martius
Ara Pacis Augustae (Altar of Augustan Peace). View from the southwest. 13-9 BCE.
Augustus of Primaporta. Copy of a bronze original of c.20 BCE. Marble, height 6’8”. Vatican Museums, Rome. (Stokstad 6-18)
Augustus as Pontifex Maximus (“Pio Clementio”), Roman Imperial, 1st century CE
Ara Pacis Augustae (Altar of Augustan Peace). View from the southwest. 13-9 BCE.
Imperial procession. Detail of the relief on the south frieze of the Ara Pacis Augustae. 13-9 BCE.
Imperial procession. Detail of the relief on the south frieze of the Ara Pacis Augustae. 13-9 BCE.
Detail of the Panathenaic festival procession. Parthenon, c.447-438 BCE.
Imperial procession. Detail of the relief on the south frieze of the Ara Pacis Augustae. 13-9 BCE.
Ara Pacis Augustae (Altar of Augustan Peace). View from the southwest. 13-9 BCE.
Female personification (Tellus?). Panel from the east façade of the Ara Pacis Augustae. 13-9 BCE.
Ara Pacis Augustae (Altar of Augustan Peace). View from the southwest. 13-9 BCE.
Whether a man aspires to the prize of Olympia's palm and breed horses, or rears bullocks, strong for the plough, let his chief care be to choose the mould of the dams. The best-formed cow is fierce-looking, her head ugly, her neck thick, and her dewlaps hanging down from chin to legs. Moreover, her long flank has no limit; all points are large, even the feet; and under the crooked horns are shaggy ears. Nor should I dislike one marked with white spots, or impatient of the yoke, at times fierce with the horn, and more like a bull in face; tall throughout, and she steps sweeping her footprints with the tail's tip. The age to bear motherhood and lawful wedlock ends before the tenth year, and begins after the fourth; the rest of their life is neither fit for breeding nor strong for the plough. Meantime, while lusty youth still abides in the herds, let loose the males; be first to send your cattle to mate, and supply stock after stock by breeding. Life's fairest days are ever the first to flee for hapless mortals; on creep diseases, and sad age, and suffering; and stern death's ruthlessness sweeps away its prey.
--Virgil, The Georgics
Ara Pacis Augustae, Altar of Augustan Peace, View from the northeast, 13-9 BCE
Ara Pacis, view from the northeast, Roman Imperial, c. 30-13 BCE.
Census Taking Relief, Rome, Roman Republic, c. 2nd century CE
SusOvisTaurus = Suovetauralia
Gemma Augustea. Roman Imperial, Early first century CE
Crowning of Augustus
Erection of a Trophy
Crowning of Augustus
Erection of a Trophy
Augustus / Jupiter
eagle
Livia? / Roma
Capricorn
Oikoumene
Winged Victory
Tiberius
Oceanus
Italia
Critical Thinking Questions
1. How are the ideals of the Roman republic different than the ideals of 5th century Athens? How does this relationship change under Augustus?
2. What is verism? Why is it a problematic term in the interpretation of Roman republican art?
3. How are Roman origin myths present in the art of the early empire under Augustus?
4. How does Augustus manage the transformation between republic and empire. Why must this be done delicately?