The Art of Ancient Rome
DU1741,Autumn Semester
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
Aureus of Marcus Aurelius (173– 174 BCE)
Equestrian statue “of
Charlemagne”, bronze (once
gilded), horse and rider from
different periods (?), height: 25
cm, first half of the 9th century
CE / 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),
Gemma Augustea, 9–12AD,
19 x 23 cm, sardonyx / setting
with gold and gilded silver:
17th century, Kunsthistorisches
Museum,Wien, Inv.-Nr. IXa 79
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
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
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
Sculpted relief depicting a pediment with the sacred Capitoline
triad: Jupiter (center), Juno (left), and Minerva (right). Castor and
Pollux at the edges (Dioscuri). Museo Nazionale, Rome (collections
of the Universita' di Roma), 2nd century CE
CapitolineTriad, c.
160–180 AD /
Guidonia Montecelio,
Museo Civico
Archeologico
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
M·AGRIPPA·L·F·COS·TERTIVM·FECIT
Agrippa’s
Pantheon?
Jakob Alt, Piazza
della Rotunda with
view on the
Pantheon,
watercolor, 1836 /
Albertina, Vienna
Martin van
Heemskerck,
Façade of the
Pantheon, drawing,
1532–1536
Agrippa finished the construction of the building called the
Pantheon. It has this name, perhaps because it received among the
images which decorated it the statues of many gods, including Mars
and Venus; but my own opinion of the name is that, because of its
vaulted roof, it resembles the heavens.
Cassius Dio, History of Rome