The Art of Ancient Rome
DU1741,Autumn Semester 2019
III.The City of Rome, and Its Images of Power
Carlo Andemollo, Breccia di Porta Pia, 1880 /
Milan, Museo del Risorgimento
Panel from an altar
dedicated Mars andVenus.
marble, end of the reign of
Trajan (98-117AD), from
Ostia / Rome, Palazzo
Massimo alleTerme
Aeneas escaping Troy, carrying his father
Anchises and leading his sonAscanius (Iulius),
terracotta, 1st centuryAD, from Pompeii /
Naples, MuseoArcheologico Nazionale
PubliusVergilius Maro (c. 70–19 BC)
TheAeneid, composed 29–19 BC
Virgil surrounded by the Muses Clio and
Melpomene, mosaic, 3rd centuryAD, Hadrumetum
(Sousse,Tunisia) /Tunis, Bardo Museum
Reconstruction of the Campus Martius
Reliefs from the Altar of “DomitiusAhenobarbus”, for theTemple of Neptune on the Campus Martius, set up c. 120–
100 B.C., Munich, Glypothek and Musée du Louvre, Paris
“Brutus”, part of a Roman bronze
honorific statue, around 300 BC /
Rome, Musei Capitolini
Bronze head of a man, around
300 BC, from Fiesole / Paris,
Musée du Louvre
L’arringatore, bronze statue of a politician from
Perusium (Perugia), first quarter of the first
century BC / Florence, Museo archeologico
L’arringatore, bronze statue of a politician from
Perusium (Perugia), first quarter of the first
century BC / Florence, Museo archeologico
Bronze bust of Scipio the
African (Africanus), mid
1st century BC, from the
Villa of the Papyri,
Herculaneum / Naples,
Museo Archeologico
Head of old man,
marble, mid-1st
century BC / Rome,
MuseiVaticani
So-called Patrizio
Torlonia, sometimes
believed to be Cato the
Elder, marble, 1st century
AD copy of an original of
80-70 BC / Rome,
collezioneTorlonia
So-called “Togatus
Barberini”, marble, 1st
centuryAD / Rome,
Centrale Montemartini
Portrait of Julius
Caesar, marble, 33
cm, fromTusculum, c.
50-40 BC /Torino,
Museo di antichità
Posthumous portrait of
Julius Caesar, marble, 52
cm, from the Augustean
period, 44-30 BC /
Vatican, MuseiVaticani,
Pio Clementino
Roman province shortly before the assassination of Julius Caesar, 44 BC
Augustus Prima Porta, marble, heighth: 2,08 m,
1000 kg, later than 20 BC, probably between 15–
29AD /Vatican, MuseiVaticani
Augustus portrait of
the Prima Porta type,
early 1st centuryAD /
Paris, Musée du Louvre
Portrait ofAugustus, early 1st centuryAD, 4,7 cm dark glass with
turquoise-green covering, Römisch Germanisches Museum, Köln
Doryphoros (Spear bearer), roman
copy of a greek original by
Polykleitos, from theVilla of the
Papyri, Herculaneum, original c.
450–440 BC, ca. mid 1st c. BC to 79
AD (Roman copy) / Naples, Museo
Archeologico Nazionale
Doryphoros, 120–50
BC?, mi-Augustean
period? (Roman
copy) /Minneapolis
Institute ofArt
Base of the Column of
Antoninous Pius, 161AD,
formerly on the Campus Martius
Column of Trajan, 107–113 AD / Rome, Forum of Trajan
Augustus as pontifex maximus, fromVia Labicana, 1st centuryAD
/ Rome, Museo Nazionale Romano, Palazzo Massimo alleTerme
Marcus Aurelius sacrificing to the Gods, from the Arch of
Marcus Aurelius, c. 176 AD / Rome, Musei Capitolini
The Ara Pacis Augustae (Altar ofAugustean Peace), consecrated in 9 BC, originally
placed in the Campus Martius / Rome, Museum of the Ara Pacis
Gemma Augustea, 9–12AD,
19 x 23 cm, sardonyx / setting
with gold and gilded silver:
17th century, Kunsthistorisches
Museum,Wien, Inv.-Nr. IXa 79
Great Cameo of France, 23AD or 50–54AD,
sardonyx, 31 x 26,5 cm, Musée de la
Bibliothèque Nationale de France, Paris
Equestrian statue of MarcusAurelius, gilded
bronze, 166–180AD, Musei Capitolini, Rome
Bronze copy on the Piazza del Campidoglio
Portrait of MarcusAurelius, marble, between
161–180AD/ Baltimore,WaltersArt Museum
Equestrian statue “of
Charlemagne”, bronze (once
gilded), horse and rider from
different periods (?), height: 25
cm, first half of the 9th century /
Paris, Musée du Louvre
Donatello, statue of
condottiere Ersamo da
Narni detto Il
Gattamelata, bronze,
1446–1450, Padua,
Piazza del Santo