Vitellius, Aulus (Emperor of Rome, 15-69)
A History of Roman Art, enhanced ed., Boston: Wadsworth, 2010 (9780495909873)
Sestertius with obverse portrait of Galba
Fourth Style mural painting, room 78, Domus Aurea
The Domus Aurea also boasts some of the finest examples of the Fourth Style of Roman painting, which seems to have been introduced in the 50s CE.
Severus and Celer, octagonal hall, Domus Aurea
Severus and Celer were architect-engineers who built a luxurious new palace, the Domus Aurea or Golden House.
Severus and Celer, plan and section of the octagonal hall, Domus Aurea
Aureus with obverse portrait of Nero and Agrippina the Younger
The Porta Maggiore is the outstanding example of Roman rustication (rustic, or rough, unfinished masonry).
Claudius, Emperor of Rome, 10 B.C. - 54 A.D.
This relief came from the Sebasteion, Aphrodisias, Turkey.
This relief was found in the Ara Pietatis Augustae (Altar of Augustan Peity), Rome.
Augustus, Emperor of Rome, 63 B.C.-14 A.D.
Livia, Empress, consort of Augustus, Emperor of Rome, ca. 58 B.C.-29 A.D.
The identifications of the left three figures are disputed, but the figure at the far right is Divus Augustus. Next to Augustus is Livia in the guise of Venus Genetrix holding Cupid.
This frieze was found in the Tomb of the Haterii, Rome. The lintel above the doorway to the tomb-the symbolic border between the worlds of the living and of the dead was decorated with four busts of Roman deities: from left to right, Jupiter
This statue was found in the Basilica, Velleia.
Agrippina the Younger who convinced the emperor to adopt Nero as his son and to permit him to marry Ictavia giving Nero precedence in the line of succession over Britannicus.
Agrippina the Elder is a mother of Caligula.
This relief was found in the Tomb of the Haterii, Rome.
Tiberius, Emperor of Rome, 42 B.C. - 37 A.D.
Cameo is a method of carving, or an object such as an engraved gem, item of jewelry or vessel made in this manner. It nearly always features a raised (positive) relief image
contrast with intaglio, which has a negative image.
Augustus seated among gods and personifications
This cup was found in Boscoreale, Italy. The Boscoreale cups are more likely early Tiberian in date and juxtapose historical representations of the new emperor and divi filius with depiction of his deified father.
This object was found in Boscoreale, Italy.
The suovetaurilia or suovitaurilia was one of the most sacred and traditional rites of Roman religion: the sacrifice of a pig (sus), a ram (ovis) and a bull (taurus) to the deity Mars to bless and purify land (Lustratio).
Boar Hunt, Relief on the Mausoleum of the Julii
Aerial view of the Theater and Amphitheater of Merida, Spain
Theater dates from 16 BCE, and the amphitheater 8 BCE
Detail of the Frieze of the Arch of Augustus.
This relief is a part of the pediment of the Tomb of Lusius Storax, Chieti.
This image was found in the House 1,3,23, Pompeii.
Funerary relief with cortege of the deceased
Funerary relief with portraits of the Gessii
Funerary relief with portraits of the Servilii
Drawing, Third Style mural paintings in the burial chamber of the tomb of Caius Cestius
This is a drawing after a 1697 engraving by Pietro Santi Bartoli.
Detail of Third Style mural painting, from Villa of Agrippa Postumus
from the Cubiculum 15, Black Room, Villa of Agrippa Postumus, Boscotrecase
Detail of Third Style mural painting, from the north wall of the Red Room
from cubiculum 16, Villa of Agrippa Postumus, Boscotrecase
This photograph shows the stucco-covered opus incertum walls, the rectangular windows in the barrel vault, the tub of hot water at the curved end, of the room, and the circular window in the apse's half dome, which may have had a shutter in order to control the temperature of the steam-filled caldarium.
Second Style mural paintings, From Villa Farnesina, Rome
Second Style mural paintings, from House of Livia
Second Style mural paintings, from House of Augustus
From east and south walls of the Room of Masks, room 5
Procession of the Imperial Family, Detail of Ara Pacis Augustae
Theater of Marcellus, view from the north
Ara Pacis Augustae (Altar of Augustan Peace), view from the southwest
1) men's entrance, 2) palaestra, 3) men's apodyterium, 4) men's frigidarium, 5) men's tepidarium, 6) men's caldarium, 7) furnaces, 8) women's caldarium, 9) women's tepidarium, 10) women's apodyterium and frigidarium, and 11) women's entrance.
Augustus as Imperator (Augustus of Primaporta)
Temple of Mars Ultor (view from the south)
As represented on the reverse of a denarius of Augustus
1) tribunal, 2) nave, 3) aisle, 4) chalcidicum
Sestertius with Obverse Portrait of Divus Julius
Plan of the Forum of Caesar (Forum Iilium)
Temple of Venus Genetrix and portico of the Forum of Caesar
Denarius with obverse portrait of Julius Caesar as dictator perpetuo
In the Roman currency system, the denarius was a small silver coin first minted in 211 BC. It was the most common coin produced for circulation but was slowly debased until its replacement by the antoninianus.
Theater of Pompey is represented on the Forma Urbis Romae.
This sculpture is a copy from Via Salaria, Rome, of a portrait of ca. 55 - 50 BCE.
This statue was found in the House of the Diadoumenos, Delos, Greece.
During the republican period, portrait of women also depicted elderly persons. A marble head was found at Palombara Sabina.
The subjects of these so-called veristic (superrealistic) portraits were almost exclusively men of advanced age, for generally only elders held power in the Republic.
Wedding procession of Neptune and Amphitrite
This scene is a detail of the frieze of the Altar of Domitius Ahenobarbus.
Pasiteles (Greek sculptor, ca. 90 - 50 BCE)
Paullus, Lucius Aemilius, 229 - 160 B.C.
This relief is a detail of the frieze of the Victory Monument of Aemilius Paullus, Delphi, Greece.
Flamininus, Titus Quinctius, 227 - 174 B.C.
Capitolium, Pompeii, during the earthquake of 62 CE
Relief from the laraium of the House of L. Caecilius
Doric East Frieze, Detail of Temple C, Selinus
Doric east frieze of triglyphs and metopes with mythological subjects, Temple C, Selinus
The Bay of Naples at the time of the eruption of Mount Vesuvius.
Satellite photograph (looking north) of Timgad (Roman Thamugadi), Algeria, founded 100 CE.
Temple of Fortuna Primigenia (Palestrina, Italy)