Doric East Frieze, Detail of Temple C, Selinus
Doric east frieze of triglyphs and metopes with mythological subjects, Temple C, Selinus
A History of Roman Art, enhanced ed., Boston: Wadsworth, 2010 (9780495909873)
Capitolium, Pompeii, during the earthquake of 62 CE
Relief from the laraium of the House of L. Caecilius
Flamininus, Titus Quinctius, 227 - 174 B.C.
Paullus, Lucius Aemilius, 229 - 160 B.C.
This relief is a detail of the frieze of the Victory Monument of Aemilius Paullus, Delphi, Greece.
Pasiteles (Greek sculptor, ca. 90 - 50 BCE)
Wedding procession of Neptune and Amphitrite
This scene is a detail of the frieze of the Altar of Domitius Ahenobarbus.
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.
During the republican period, portrait of women also depicted elderly persons. A marble head was found at Palombara Sabina.
This statue was found in the House of the Diadoumenos, Delos, Greece.
This sculpture is a copy from Via Salaria, Rome, of a portrait of ca. 55 - 50 BCE.
Theater of Pompey is represented on the Forma Urbis Romae.
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.
Temple of Venus Genetrix and portico of the Forum of Caesar
Plan of the Forum of Caesar (Forum Iilium)
Sestertius with Obverse Portrait of Divus Julius
Augustus, Emperor of Rome, 63 B.C.-14 A.D.
1) tribunal, 2) nave, 3) aisle, 4) chalcidicum
As represented on the reverse of a denarius of Augustus
Temple of Mars Ultor (view from the south)
Augustus as Imperator (Augustus of Primaporta)
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.
Livia, Empress, consort of Augustus, Emperor of Rome, ca. 58 B.C.-29 A.D.
Ara Pacis Augustae (Altar of Augustan Peace), view from the southwest
Theater of Marcellus, view from the north
Procession of the Imperial Family, Detail of Ara Pacis Augustae
Second Style mural paintings, from House of Augustus
From east and south walls of the Room of Masks, room 5
Second Style mural paintings, from House of Livia
Second Style mural paintings, From Villa Farnesina, Rome
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.
Detail of Third Style mural painting, from the north wall of the Red Room
from cubiculum 16, Villa of Agrippa Postumus, Boscotrecase
Detail of Third Style mural painting, from Villa of Agrippa Postumus
from the Cubiculum 15, Black Room, Villa of Agrippa Postumus, Boscotrecase
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.
Funerary relief with portraits of the Servilii
Funerary relief with portraits of the Gessii
Funerary relief with cortege of the deceased
This image was found in the House 1,3,23, Pompeii.
This relief is a part of the pediment of the Tomb of Lusius Storax, Chieti.
Detail of the Frieze of the Arch of Augustus.
Aerial view of the Theater and Amphitheater of Merida, Spain
Theater dates from 16 BCE, and the amphitheater 8 BCE
This relief was found in the Tomb of the Haterii, Rome.
Boar Hunt, Relief on the Mausoleum of the Julii
Tiberius, Emperor of Rome, 42 B.C. - 37 A.D.
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).
This object was found in Boscoreale, Italy.
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.
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.
Agrippina the Elder is a mother of Caligula.
Claudius, Emperor of Rome, 10 B.C. - 54 A.D.
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.
This statue was found in the Basilica, Velleia.
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
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 relief was found in the Ara Pietatis Augustae (Altar of Augustan Peity), Rome.
This relief came from the Sebasteion, Aphrodisias, Turkey.
The Porta Maggiore is the outstanding example of Roman rustication (rustic, or rough, unfinished masonry).
Aureus with obverse portrait of Nero and Agrippina the Younger
Severus and Celer, plan and section of the octagonal hall, Domus Aurea
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.
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.
Sestertius with obverse portrait of Galba
Vitellius, Aulus (Emperor of Rome, 15-69)
The framed houses of Massachusetts Bay, Cambridge, Mass.: Belknap Press, 1979 (9780674316805)
Restored, Appleton-Taylor-Mansfield house
View of unrestored parlor., Appleton-Taylor-Mansfield house
View of restored parlor., Appleton-Taylor-Mansfield house
Floor Plan, Ten Teacher Community School (No 10-A)
Community school plans, Nashville, Tenn.: Julius Rosenwald Fund, 1928
Floor Plan, Ten Teacher Community School (No 10)
Plan, Ten Teacher Community School (No 10-A)