Art of Ancient Rome
Roman History Timeline• Early History
– 1000 BCE Latin speaking tribes in Italy– 8th C BCE Rome Founded (Etruscans in the North, Greek Colonies in
the South)• Roman Republic 509 – 27 BCE
– 509 BCE Founding of Republic– 500 – 264 BCE Unification of Italian Peninsula– 264 – 146 BCE Punic Wars with Carthage & subjugation of Hellenistic
States– 146 – 27 BCE Collapse of Republic
• Roman Empire 27 BCE – 476 CE– Expansion through Conquest & Administration
Roman Republic
• 509 BCE Founding of Republic• 500 – 264 BCE Unification of
Italian Peninsula• 264 – 146 BCE Punic Wars
with Carthage• 146 – 133 BCE Greece &
Hellenistic States become a Province of Rome
• 146 – 27 BCE Collapse of Republic
Ancient Greek Civilization
• 490 – 480 BCE Persians Wars• 480 – 430 BCE Golden Age
(High Classical)• 431 – 404 BCE
Peloponnesian Wars• 400 – 338 BCE Political
Upheaval (Late Classical)• 336 – 323 BCE Alexander
the Great (Hellenistic)
Portrait Busts - verism
Roman Republic
Roman Patrician c. 75-50 BCE
Roman
Patrician w. Busts of his Ancestors,1st cent. BCE
Denarius (Coin) with Portrait of Julius Caesar,c. 44 BCE
Maison Carrée, Nîmes, France,ca. 1–10 CE
Temple of “Fortuna Virilis” Rome, Italy, ca. 75 BCE
Greek & Etruscan Architectual Influence
Roman Architectural Innovations
Arch Barrel Vault Groin Vault
Fenestrated Groin Vaults
Dome
Roman Greek
Arch
Pont du Gard, Aqueduct, Nimes, France, 1st century AD
Colosseum (Flavian Amphitheater), Amphitheater, Rome, 70-82 AD
Barrel Vault
Colosseum Amphitheater
Concrete
Theater at Epidaurus
Baths of Trajan, Rome, 110 AD
Groin Vault
Basilica Nova (of Constantine), Law Court & Civic Center, Rome, 310-320 AD
Groin Vaults & Clerestory Windows
Fenestrated Groin Vaults
Pantheon, Temple, Rome, 118-125 AD
Dome
Sections of the Pantheon, Rome, Italy, 118–125 CE.