The Art of Ancient Rome
DU1741,Autumn Semester 2019
IV. The Gods in the City: Rome and Religion
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
Base of the Column
ofAntoninous Pius,
161AD
Apotheosis of Claudius, c. 54
AD, sardonyx / Paris, Cabinet
des Médailles
Hadrian and Annia Lucilla (?) as Mars and
Venus, ca. 120–140 AD, reworked ca. 170–
175 AD / Paris, Musée du Louvre
Portrait of Commodus as Hercules
(greek Herakles), marble, c. 190 AD,
(reign of Commodus 161 AD–
192AD),
Augustus as Jupiter,
Roman marble, c. 1st
centuryAD
Temple of Gaius and Lucius Cesar (grandsons of
Augustus), Maison carrée, Nîmes, c. 2 AD
Parthenon, 447–432 BC
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
Sacrificial relief from the northeast side of the Arch of Septimius
Severus, Lepcis Magna, c. 203 AD / Khoms, Lybia
Bronze statuette of Zeus or Jupiter, early 5th century BC,
10.5 cm H. / NewYork, Metropolitan Museum
Bronze statuette of Jupiter, 2nd half of the 2nd centuryAD,
29.3 cm H. / NewYork, Metropolitan Museum
Poseidon greetingTheseus,Attic red-figured calyx-krater,
1st half of the 5th century BC, from Agrigento / Paris,
Cabinet des Médailles, De Ridder 418
Triumph of Neptune, Hadrumetes
mosaic, mid-3rd centuryAD /
Sousse Archeological Museum
Haruspex inspecting animal
entrails, marble relief, 1st quarter
of the 2nd AD /Paris, Louvre
Museum
Bronze sheep liver of Piacenza,
etruscan divination tool,
engraved with the Etruscan
names of the deities connected
to each part of the organ
CapitolineTriad, c.
160–180 AD /
Guidonia Montecelio,
Museo Civico
Archeologico
Lararium (household
shrine) of theVettii,
Pompeii, mid first
century, probably
between 62 and 79 AD
Bronze statuette of a Lar, 1st–2nd
centuryAD / New York, MET
Bronze statuette of a Lar, 1st centuryAD
/ Malibu, Getty Museum