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Ancient Etruscan & Roman Art & Architecture. Etruscans “She-Wolf” 500 BC 33 in. high Capitoline Museum Rome. Sarcophagus of the Married Couple from The Bandataccia Necropolis, Cerveteri, 6th B.C. - PowerPoint PPT PresentationTRANSCRIPT
Portrait of a woman of the Flavian period, marble, c. AD 90. In the Capitoline Museums, Rome.
Life-size.
Augustus of Prima Porta
20 BC
Vatican museums
6’8” tall
Corinthian capital
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The Pantheon Rome 118-125 AD
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.
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
“The Interior of the Pantheon” by Giovanni Panini 1735
Trajan's Column: detail - bottom register of frieze on W. side, watching legionaries crossing a pontoon bridge) - 113 A.D. marble h. of frieze
Trajan's Column: detail - lower registers of frieze on
E. side - Trajan's campaigns against the
Dacians - 113 A.D. marble
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.
Ara Pacis Imperial PrecessionIn 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.
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.