1. Ancient
Etruscan & Roman
Art & Architecture

2. Etruscans “She-Wolf” 500 BC Capitoline Museum Rome
33 in. high
Capitoline Museum Rome

3. Sarcophagus of the Married Couple from The Bandataccia Necropolis, Cerveteri, 6th B.C.

4. Chimera of Arezzo c. 400 BC bronze Florence Museo Archeologico Nazionale

5. Temple of Fortuna Virilis
Rome
c. 75 BC

6. Head of a Roman Patrician Roman Republic Otricoli, Italy ca
Head of a Roman Patrician Roman Republic Otricoli, Italy ca BCE marble

7. Portrait of a woman of the Flavian period, marble, c. AD 90
Portrait of a woman of the Flavian period, marble, c. AD 90. In the Capitoline Museums, Rome. Life-size.

8. Wall decoration from the villa of the mysteries
Pompeii BC

9. Seated Boxer
By Apollionios of Athens
150 BC
Rome

10. Augustus of Prima Porta
20 BC
Vatican museums
6’8” tall

11. Woman Playing A Kithara
1st century BC

12. Roman Patrician with Busts of his Ancestors
30 BC
Capitoline Museum
Rome

13. Corinthian capital

14. Colosseum Rome AD

15. Aerial view

17. Floor of the Colosseum

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19. The Pantheon Rome AD

20. 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.

21. 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

24. “The Interior of the Pantheon” by Giovanni Panini 1735

25. Pont du Gard Nimes, France
early 1st century AD

27. Column of Trajan
Rome
113 AD

28. Trajan's Column: detail - bottom register of frieze on W
Trajan's Column: detail - bottom register of frieze on W. side, watching legionaries crossing a pontoon bridge) A.D. marble h. of frieze

29. Trajan's Column: detail - lower registers of frieze on E
Trajan's Column: detail - lower registers of frieze on E. side - Trajan's campaigns against the Dacians A.D. marble

30. Arch of Constantine
Rome AD

32. Detail of the arch (southern side, left)

33. Colossal Head of Constantine
330 AD marble height: 8’

35. The hand; the foot--the disrespectful art historian (5' 8½") gives a sense of scale

37. 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.

38. 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.

39. Photo of the Valentino exhibit at the Ara Pacis Museum

40. 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.

41. Via Sacra Roman Forum