Art 26: ETRUSCAN AND ROMAN ART AND ARCHITECTURE
ETRUSCAN ART AND ARCHITECTURE
Mirror
Musicians and Dancers, detail of a wall painting, Tomb of the
Lionesses (also known as Tomb of the Leopards), Tarquinia, Italy
Reconstruction of an Etruscan temple
Sarcophagus with Reclining Couple (Bride and Groom Sarcophagus), from
Cerveteri, Italy
She-Wolf (Capitoline Wolf)
Tomb of the Reliefs, Cerveteri, Italy
Vulca (?), Apollo (Aplu or Apulu), from Veii, Italy
ROMAN ART AND ARCHITECTURE
Republican Period
First Style wall painting, Samnite House, Herculaneum Italy
Head of a Roman Patrician
House of the Silver Wedding (Atrium), Pompeii, Italy
Plan of the Temple of Portunus( Temple of “Fortuna Virilis”), Rome
Pont du Gard, Nîmes, France
Temple of Portunus (Temple of “Fortuna Virilis”), Rome
Early Empire Period
Ara Pacis Augustae (Altar of Peace), Rome, Italy
Arch of Titus, Rome, Italy
Augustus of Primaporta
Colosseum (Flavian Amphitheater), Rome, Italy
Dionysiac Mystery Frieze, Second Style wall painting from
the Villa of the Mysteries, Pompeii, Italy
Dome of the Pantheon, with light from oculus on its
coffered ceiling
Equestrian Statue of Marcus Aurelius
Garden Scene (Gardenscape), Second Style of a wall painting from the Villa of
Livia at Primaporta, near Rome
Heraklitos, The Unswept Floor, variant of a 2nd-century painting
by Sosos of Pergamon.
Imperial Procession, detail of a relief on the Ara Pacis Augustae
Middle-aged Flavian Woman
Pantheon, Rome, Italy
Spoils from the Temple of Solomon, Jerusalem, relief in the passageway of the
Arch of Titus, Rome, Italy
Still Life with Peaches, detail of a Fourth Style wall painting, from
Herculaneum, Italy
Triumph of Titus, relief in the passageway of the Arch of Titus, Rome, Italy
Young Flavian Woman
Young Woman Writing, detail of a wall painting, from Pompeii, Italy
Late Empire Period
Arch of Constantine, Rome, Italy
Basilica of Maxentius and Constantine (Basilica Nova), Rome, Italy
Caracalla
Commodus as Hercules
Constantine the Great, from the Basilica of Maxentius and
Constantine (Basilica Nova), Rome, Italy
Vocabulary:
acanthus leaves
acroterion (acroteria, plural)
apse
aqueduct
arcade
arch
Arno River
atrium
barrel vault
basilica
buon fresco
clerestory
coffer
Compostite order
concrete
engaged column
equestrian portrait/statue
Forum
fresco secco
groin vault
idealized style/idealism
illusionism
menorah
keystone
mosaic
necropolis
oculus
pilaster
Po River
podium
porphyry
rotunda
sarcophagus
still life tablinum
terra-cotta
tesserae
Tiber River
tondo
trompe l’oeil
Tuscan Doricorder
veristic style/verism
wall painting
Who was who:
Calchas
Hadrian
Livia
Octavius/Octavian/Augustus
Romulus and Remus
Titus
Vespasian
Vitruvius
Compare and contrast Greek, Etruscan and Roman temples.