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Ancient Etruscan Roman Art Architecture
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Etruscans She-Wolf 500 BC 33 in.
high Capitoline Museum Rome
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Sarcophagus of the Married Couple from The
Bandataccia Necropolis, Cerveteri, 6th B.C.
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Chimera of Arezzo c. 400 BC bronze Florence
Museo Archeologico Nazionale
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Temple of Fortuna Virilis Rome c. 75 BC
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Head of a Roman PatricianRoman
RepublicOtricoli, Italyca. 75-50 BCEmarble
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Portrait of a woman of the Flavian period,
marble, c. AD 90. In the Capitoline Museums,
Rome. Life-size.
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Wall decoration from the villa of the
mysteries Pompeii 50 BC
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Seated Boxer By Apollionios of Athens 150 BC Rome
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Augustus of Prima Porta 20 BC Vatican
museums 68 tall
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Woman Playing A Kithara 1st century BC
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Roman Patrician with Busts of his Ancestors 30
BC Capitoline Museum Rome
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Corinthian capital
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Colosseum Rome 72-80 AD
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Aerial view
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Floor of the Colosseum
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The Pantheon Rome 118-125 AD
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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 "MAGRIPPALFCOSTERTIVMFECIT"
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.
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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
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The Interior of the Pantheon by Giovanni
Panini 1735
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Pont du Gard Nimes, France early 1st
century AD
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Column of Trajan Rome 113 AD
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Trajan's Column detail - bottom register of
frieze on W. side, watching legionaries crossing
a pontoon bridge) - 113 A.D. marble h. of frieze
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Trajan's Column detail - lower registers of
frieze on E. side - Trajan's campaigns against
the Dacians - 113 A.D. marble
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Arch of Constantine Rome 312-315 AD
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• Detail of the arch (southern side, left)

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Colossal Head of Constantine 330 AD marble
height 8
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The hand the foot--the disrespectful art
historian (5' 8½") gives a sense of scale
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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.
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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.
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Photo of the Valentino exhibit at the Ara Pacis
Museum
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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.
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Via Sacra Roman Forum