Roman Sculpture through the High Empire
4th Style wall painting, Ixion room at the House of the Vettii, Pompeii
Head of a patrician, from Osimo, mid-first cent. BC
Sculpture during the Roman Republic
Verism
Head of a patrician, from Osimo, mid-first cent. BC
Portrait of a Roman general, found at Tivoli, Italy, 75-50 BC
←POLYKLEITOS, Doryphoros (Spear Thrower), Roman marble copy from Pompeii, after a Greek bronze original of ca. 450 BC
→Portrait of a Roman general, found at Tivoli, Italy, 75-50 BC
The so-called "Togatus Barberini": a Roman senator holding the imagines (effigies) of deceased ancestors in his hand. Marble, late 1st century BC.
George Washington, sculpture by Horatio Greenough, 1840
Portrait of Augustus as general, from Primaporta, Italy, early 1st cent. CE
Early Empire
Portrait of Augustus as general, from Primaporta, Italy, early 1st cent. CE
Ara Pacis Augustae (Altar of Augustan Peace- Pax Romana),Rome, 13 – 9 BC
Ara Pacis Augustae,
Female personification (image above): Tellus (Mother earth)
Procession of imperial family (right)
Portrait of Vespasian, ca. 75-79 CE. Marble, 1’ 4” high
Arch of Titus, Rome, 81 CE
Relief Panels from the Arch of Titus
Spoils of Jerusalem
Triumph of Titus
Rome, Column of Trajan, dedicated 112 CE
High Empire
Funerary relief of a vegetable vendor, from Ostia, Italy. 2nd cent. CE. Painted terracotta. 1’5” high.
Detail of Column of Trajan showing the start of the first of Trajan's two victorious military campaigns against the Dacians, dedicated 112 CE
Apotheosis of Antoninus Pius and Faustina, pedestal of the Column of Antoninus Pius, Rome, ca. 161 CE. Marble, 8’ high.
U.S. Capitol, Washington D.C. Dome begun in 1855
Interior of dome
Apotheosis of George Washington in the Dome of the Rotunda of the US Capitol painted by Constantino Brumidi in 1863
Equestrian statue of Marcus Aurelius, Rome, ca. 175 CE. Bronze. 11’ high Detail