Periods of Art History I: From Prehistory to Trajan XI. Art of the Early Roman Empire Augustus Prima Porta, marble, heighth: 2,08 m, 1000 kg, later than 20 BC, probably between 15–29 AD / Vatican, Musei Vaticani Augustus portrait of the Prima Porta type, early 1st century AD / Paris, Musée du Louvre The bronze head of Augustus from Meroë, bronze, 27– 25 BC, British Museum Doryphoros (Spear bearer), copy of a greek original, Villa 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 of Art Caelus Sol Tellus (Terra Mater) Diana Restitution of the Roman eagle by the Parthian king to a Roman figure Apollo Aurora and Luna? Pax Romana? Female personification: Germania?Female personification: which province? Video about Ara Pacis in Rome: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WCNz8sExxnM Augustus as Pontifex Maximus, after 12 B.C.E., marble, 208 cm high, found in the Via Labicana, Rome, Palazzo Massimo Alle Terme Sardonyx cameo portrait of the Emperor Augustus, ca. 41–54 CE, MET Gemma Augustea, 9–12 AD, 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 century AD Capitoline Triad, c. 160–180 CE / Guidonia Montecelio, Museo Civico Archeologico Capitoline Triad on a gold pectoral, 200–300 CE (Cleveland Museum of Art) Sculpture of Jupiter Tonans (Thundering Jupiter/Jove), reflection of the statue venerated in the Temple of Jupiter Tonans, vowed in 26 BC by Augustus, 1st century AD copy / Madrid, Museo del Prado Jupiter/Zeus of Otricoli, roman copy of an original from the 4th century BC (?) / Vatican Museums, Pio Clementino, Inv. 257 Hermanubis (Roman Anubis) marble statue, 1st–2nd century CE (Vatican Museums). He is generally associated with Hermes or Mercury Statuette of Anubis, Ptolemaic Period, 332–30 BCE, MET Cybele enthroned, with lion, cornucopia, and mural crown. Roman marble, c. 50 CE. Getty Museum Seated Cybele within a naiskos (4th century BCE, Ancient Agora Museum, Athens) Seated Woman of Çatalhöyük, flanked by large felines as arm-rests, c. 6,000 BCE Cybele Seated Mercury (also known as Hermes at Rest), Roman copy of an ancient Greek bronze, 105 cm (Museo Nazionale, Naples August Mau 4 Styles of Roman painting cubiculum (bedroom), Villa of P. Fannius Synistor at Boscoreale, 50–40 B.C.E., fresco (The Metropolitan Museum of Art) view of the Dionysiac frieze, Villa of the Mysteries, before 79 C.E., fresco, 15 x 22 feet, just outside the walls of Pompeii on the Road to Herculaneum Wall painting on black ground: Aedicula with small landscape, from the imperial villa at Boscotrecase, last decade of the 1st century BCE, MET Obelisk in Piazza del Popolo Panel with candelabrum (detail with Egyptian motif ), Villa Agrippa Postumus, Boscotrecase, last decade of the 1st century B.C.E. (The Metropolitan Museum of Art) House of the Vettii VI 15,1 Pompeii, 1sr century CE Frescos from the Villa of Livia, at Prima Porta nera Rome, today housed in Palazzo Massimo, Rome Painted stucco decoration, Stabian Baths, Pompeii The Alexander Mosaic, c. 120–100 BCE, 272 cm × 513 cm, National Archaeological Museum Naples Glass mosaic, Herculaneum. Neptune and Afrodite.1st century CE Medusa as an apotropaic symbol Horse-bodied Gorgon (Medusa) being decapitated by Perseus with averted gaze; Boetian relief pithos, Louvre CA 795 (midseventh century BC Preserved metopes from the Temple C of Selinunte, Castelvetrano, Sicily, half of the 6th century BCE National Archaeological Museum “Antonio Salinas”, Palermo Athena wearing her snake-fringed Gorgon aegis; plate attributed to Oltos, Munich, Staatliche Antikensammlungen (c. 525–475 BC) Gorgoneion; silver didrachm issued by Athens (mid-late sixth century BC Medusa, painted terracotta plaque, 56 x 50 cm, from the Athena Sanctuary, Syracuse, c. 575-550 BCE Regional Archaeological Museum Paolo Orsi, Syracuse Antefix with the head of Medusa, terracotta, 6th century BCE, from Tarentino, Southern Italy Metropolitan Museum, New York Perseus about to behead a "beautiful" sleeping Medusa; Pelike, attributed to Polygnotos, Metropolitan Museum of Art 45.11.1 (mid-fifth century BC "Beautiful" gorgoneion, with small head wings and two snakes twined under her chin; the Medusa Rondanini, Munich, Staatliche Antikensammlungen GL 252 (first-second century AD, Roman copy of a Greek original?) Bronze ornament from a chariot pole, Roman, 1st–2nd century CE , MET Benvenuto Cellini, Perseus with the head of Medusa, Florence, Piazza della Signoria, 1545-1554 Head of Medusa, 1617–1618, oil on oak by Peter Paul Rubens (1577–1640) Garabati, Luciano. Medusa with the Head of Perseus. Clay. 2008 Additional ressources for the exam preparation