1. Roman Art 700 b.c.e to 300 c.e.

2. Characteristics of Roman Art and Architecture Images of power/ leadership (veni, vidi, vici – I came, I saw, I conquered) Complicated city structures/ domestic spaces Superrealistic representations Invention of concrete – domes, vaults, arches – Engineers of the Ancient World Monarchy&Republic, Early Empire, High Empire, Late Empire

6. Head of a Roman Patrician (Otricoli), c. 75-50 BCE, marble veristic imagines placed in cupboards and carried in processions/ patrician treated with respect that comes with age/ expressed ideals of the Roman Republic

7. Statue of a Roman patrician, early 1 st century CE

8. Portrait of a husband and wife (Pompeii), c. 70-79 CE marriage portrait in an exedra/ stylus and scroll as attributes of marriage and references to status

9. Augustus (Primaporta), copy of a bronze original of c. 20 CE, marble a barefoot pontifex maximus: the youthful Octavius as Augustus Caesar/ propgandistic references to the Pax Romana (Tellus on his cuirass with a cornucopia)/ divine lineage (references to Venus, Aeneas, and Cupid at his feet)/ Ovid’s Art of Love offensive to a stoic advocate of virtue/ Parthian depicted on the cuirass returning the standard to Rome (with Apollo, Diana, the sun and moon all represented to suggest the blessing of the gods and cosmic order)

10. Ara Pacis Augustae (Rome) 13-9 BCE

11. a procession with children and the imperial family

12. Pont-du-Gard (Nimes), c. 16 BCE a Roman aqueduct in southern Gaul/ advantages of arch construction, made possible with wedged-shaped voussoirs/ providing water to the provinces to establish a political agenda

13. Colosseum (Rome) 79-80 CE freestanding Flavian amphitheater

14. barrel-vaulted corridors/ concrete construction, framing arches with engaged columns/ velarium

16. Column of Trajan (Rome), 112 CE Trajan, a non-Italian and the first of the “good emperors”/ a large, new forum built by Apollodorus of Damascus

17. a column commemorating victory over the Dacians by means of a continuous spiral, narrative frieze/ a square base serving as a tomb/ emphasis on the emperor and his superior organizational skills

19. Pantheon (Rome), 118-125 CE a temple to all the gods (with niches dedicated to the planets and the sun and moon)

21. volcanic pumice used to create a concrete dome with coffers (once holding gilded-bronze rosettes)/ oculus/ spherical interior space