The Art of Ancient Rome
DU1741,Autumn Semester 2020
VIII.The Late Roman Empire and its Art
between Continuity and Rupture
Bronze statue of the emperor
Trebonianus Gallus, 251–253
CE, H: 2,41 m
Metropolitan Museum, New
York
Bronze portrait of Augustus, c. 27–25
CE, excavated in Meroë, Nubia
British Museum, London
Bronze portrait of Vespasian, c. 69–79 CE
Bust of Maximinus Thrax, c. 235–238 CE
Musei Capitolini, Rome
Bust of Trajan Decius, c. 250 CE
Musei Capitolini, Rome
Mosaics from the Baths of Caracalla, early 4th century
Musei Vaticani
Porphyry group of the Tetrarchs, c. 300 CE (probably Diocletian,
Maximian, Constantius Chlorus, and Galerius), now on the South
Façade of the basilica of San Marco, Venice (after 1204)
Bust of Galerius (?), Egypt, early 4th century CE
porphyry, 40 cm / Cairo, Egyptian Museum
Head of a Tetrarch, from the
baths of Romuliana, (presentday
Serbia)
Monumental bronze head of Constantine the
Great, first half of the 4th century CE, H: 1,77 m
Musei Capitolini, Rome
Monumental marble head of Constantine the
Great, c. 312–313 CE
Musei Capitolini, Rome
c. 12 m 3,55 m
Colossus of
Barletta,
unidentified late
4th–5th century
emperor
Piranesi, Veduta
dell’arco di
Costantino, e
dell’anfiteatro Flavio
detto il colosseo, c.
1746-1760
Triumphal Arch
of Constantine,
312–315 CE, with
spoliae
Spolia taken from earlier triumphal monuments
dedicated to Trajan (98–117), Hadrian (117–138)
and Marcus Aurelius (161–180)
Tondi of Hadrian, Sacrifice to Apollo, Arch of
Constantine, Northern Side, 117–138
Scene of the lustratio with suovitaurilia, 175—196 CE,
Arch of Constantine, relief on the attic from south side
Consul Junius
Bassus on a chariot,
opus sectile, basilica
of Junius Bassus,
Rome, c. 331 CE
Rape of Hylas by the Nymphs, opus sectile,
basilica of Junius Bassus, Rome, c. 331 CE
Sarcophagus with the myth of Endymion, mid-2nd
centuryAD, from the outskirts of Rome /
Metropolitan Museum, NewYork
Sarcophagus with Selene and Endymion,
early 3rd centuryAD / NewYork, MET
Sarcophagus with miracles and scenes from
the story of Jonas, c. 300 CE
Vatican Museum
Jonah Under the Gourd
Vine, c. 280–290, Asia
Minor, 3rd century, Marble,
32.3 x 46.3 x 18 cm
Cleveland Museum of Art,
Baltimore
Brescia Casket, back,carved ivory
c. 370–390 CE, Milan (?)
Museo di Santa Giulia, Brescia