The Art of Ancient Rome
DU1741,Autumn Semester 2019
I.What is Roman Art? Some historiographical hints
Johann JoachimWinckelmann (1717–1768)
Resting Hermes, from theVilla of Papyri, Herculaneum, 1st
century B.C., copy of a Greek original of the 4th century
B.C., Museo Archeologico Nazionale, Naples
Apollo Belvedere, first
third of the second
centuryAD, marble,
MuseiVaticani, Museo
Pio Clementino
ColonnaVenus,
second century
AD, marble,
MuseiVaticani,
Museo Pio
Clementino,
Farnese Hercules, early third
centuryAD, from the Baths of
Caracalla, MuseoArcheologico
Nazionale, Naples
Farnese Bull, punishment of Dirce,
early third centuryAD, marble,
from the Baths of Caracalla, Museo
Archeologico Nazionale, Naples
Robert vanAudenaert, The Farnese Bull, engraving in
Raccolta Di Statue Antiche E Moderne, Roma: [1704] [i.e.
1740?]
Marcantonio Raimondi, Apollo
Belvedere, c. 1510–1527,
Metropolitan Museum, NewYork
Reliefs from theAltar of “DomitiusAhenobarbus”, set up c. 120–100 B.C.
on the Campus Martius, Munich, Glypothek and Musée du Louvre, Paris
Domus Aurea, 1st centuryAD (after 64AD), RomeDomusTransitoria, 37–68AD, Rome
Giovanni da Udine (1487–1564), from
the Vite of GiorgioVasari
“grottesche”,“all’antica”
Studio of Raphael, Loggetta of cardinal Bibbiena,
PalazzoApostolico,Vatican, c. 1550
House of heVettii, excavated 1894 Villa of the Mysteries, excavated 1909
Casa della Farnesina, cubiculum B, 30-20
B.C., Museo Nazionale Romano, Rome
Discovered/excavated in the 1880s
Ranuccio Bianchi Bandinelli (1900–1975)
1969 1970 1973
“Patrician” / “Plebeian” art
Cinerary urn, end of the 2nd, early 1st century
B.C., alabaster, production of Volterra, Museo
Gregoriano Etrusco,Vatican
Cinerary urn ofThanaVipinei Ranazunia, 2nd century
B.C., terracotta, Metropolitan Museum, NewYork