A slideshow connected to a lecture of Roman and Etruscan Art available at Art History Teaching Resources (http://arthistoryteachingresources.org/), written by Christina McCollum.

1. Ancient Roman &
Etruscan Art

2. Map of Italy showing key sites (Source)

3. Ancient Etruscan Art

4. Apollo, from Veii, Italy, c. 510–500 BCE, painted terracotta, 5’11”. (Source).

5. Model of an Etruscan temple, c. sixth century BCE, as described by Vitruvius,
Istituto di Etruscologia e di Antichità Italiche, Università di Roma, Rome. (Source)

6. Sarcophagus with Reclining Couple,
Cerveteri, Italy, 520 BCE. (Source)
Cerveteri Necropolis, Italy,
ninth–third centuries BCE. (Source)

7. Ancient Rome
• 753 BCE Founding of Rome
• 509 BCE Period of kings comes to and end; Rome becomes a
Republic
• 275 BCE Rome controls all of the Italian Peninsula
• 150 BCE Rome controls Greece
• 31 BCE Rome controls Gaul and Egypt
• 27 BCE Imperial Period begins with Augustus
• 313 CE Emperor Constantine ends the persecution of Christians
• 330 CE Constantine moves the capital of the Roman Empire to
Constantinople (Byzantium), initiating the Byzantine Era

8. Roman Expansion in the Republican Period. Red = original area of Rome.

9. Roman Empire c. 117 CE (Source)

10. Realism and Portraiture

11. Aulus Metellus, c. 100 BCE, bronze, 5’11”. (Source)
Detail of inscription on toga (Source)

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13. Pompey the Great, copy of a sculpture originally made c. 50
BCE, marble (Source)

14. Augustus of Primaporta, 63 BCE–14 CE, marble,
Vatican Museum, Rome. (Source)

15. Polykleitos, Doryphoros, Roman
copy of Greek original. (Source)
Augustus of Primaporta, 63 BCE–14 CE,
marble, Vatican Museum, Rome. (Source)

16. Aulus MetellusAugustus of Primaporta, 63 BCE–14 CE,
marble, Vatican Museum, Rome. (Source)

17. View of Garden at the Villa Livia, Primaporta, c. 20 BCE, fresco. (Source)

18. View of Garden at the Villa Livia, Primaporta, c. 20 BCE, fresco.

19. View of Garden at the Villa Livia, Primaporta, c. 20 BCE, fresco (with
details).
-verism in painting
-atmospheric perspective:
stronger lines and darker
colors emphasize objects
in the foreground

20. Interior from the Villa of Publius Fannius Synistor, Boscoreale,
c. 50-40 BCE, fresco, height 11'2”. (Source)
-attempted linear
perspective
-trompe l’oeil (“fool
the eye”) painted
architecture

21. Details from Interior of Villa of Publius Fannius

22. Architecture

23. Civic Building Projects
Pont du Gard, Nimes, France, first century CE, height 161'. (Source)

24. Diagram of Roman
arch construction
Arch construction,
Texas, 1933 (Source)

25. Pantheon, Rome, c. 120–124. (Source)

26. Pantheon, Rome, c. 120–124. (Source)
Floor plan, cutaway view, and
frontal/profile sketches of the
Pantheon. (Source)

27. Interior views of the Pantheon. (Source)

28. sold at auction in 2007
for $1,049,000
Thomas Struth, Pergamon III, 2001,
photographic print. (Source)
Thomas Struth, Pantheon, 1990,
photographic print. (Source)

29. Arch of Titus, Rome, c. 79-81 CE. (Source)

30. (detail) “The Siege of
Jerusalem”. (Source)
Interior view of the Arch of Titus.

31. Soldiers’ and Sailors’ Arch, Grand Army Plaza, Brooklyn, NY, 1889-92. (Source
)

32. Source
Fragments of the Colossus of
Constantine, c. 312 CE, marble,
Palatine Museum, Rome. (Source)