Intro -- A History of Roman Art -- Copyright -- Brief Contents -- Contents -- Illustrations -- Preface -- Note to Students -- Acknowledgments -- Walk Through Tour -- Timeline -- About the Website -- Chapter 1 Introduction to Roman Art History -- Cultural Property Controversies -- Dating Dilemmas in Roman Art History -- Restoration Issues in Roman Art History -- The Role of Elites in Public Art and Architecture -- Italic versus Classical Styles and Forms I: Temples -- Italic versus Classical Styles and Forms II: Portraiture -- Female Portraiture and Embedded Values -- Romans Judging Roman Art: Values and Class -- Art, Context, and Social Status I: The Tomb of Vestorius Priscus -- Art, Context, and Social Status II: The Roman House -- Narrative Moment -- Suggestions for Further Reading -- Chapter 2 Regal Period, 753-509 BCE: The Etruscans and the Question of Etruscan Dominance -- Timeline -- Introduction to the World of Early Rome and Italy -- The Etruscans -- Etruscan architecture and city planning -- Etruscan Orientalizing art -- Etruscan sculpture and portraiture -- Art in Latium, the Region around Rome -- Archaic Rome: City Planning and Architecture -- Murlo (Poggio Civitate) -- Etruscan Tomb Paintings -- Greco-Italic Archaic Architecture: A Doric Temple at Pompeii -- Conclusion -- Suggestions for Further Reading -- Chapter 3 The Early Republic, 509-211 BCE: The Spread of Roman Power and Forms -- Timeline -- Introduction to Early Roman Republican Art -- A brief historical survey of the Early Republic -- Greek wall painting: Tomb of the Diver, Paestum -- Etruscan tomb painting of the fifth century BCE -- Etruscan terracotta plaque, Pyrgi -- Lucanian Tomb Painting, Paestum -- Etruscan tomb painting of the fourth century BCE -- Roman tomb painting of the Early Republic -- Etruscan and central Italian bronze sculpture.

Roman Architecture and Urban Planning -- Ostia: Rome's first colony and planned community -- Maritime colonies at Cosa and Paestum, 273 BCE -- Conclusion -- Suggestions for Further Reading -- Chapter 4 The Later Republic, 211-31 BCE: The Origins of a Hellenistic Roman Culture -- Timeline -- Introduction -- Architecture and Urban Planning -- Architecture -- Greek urban planning and sanctuary design -- Roman Wall Painting in the Late Republic -- First Style wall painting, 200-80 BCE -- Second Style wall painting, 80-15 BCE -- Late Republican Sculpture -- Conclusion -- Suggestions for Further Reading -- Chapter 5 The Age of Augustus, 31 BCE-14 CE: The Art of Empire -- Timeline -- Augustus -- The Portraits of Augustus -- Augustus and the City of Rome -- The Campus Martius -- Ara Pacis Augustae -- Forum Augustum -- The Palatine Hill -- House of Augustus -- Third Style Wall Painting -- Third Style painting at Oplontis -- The Emulation of Augustan Art -- Traditional Italic Style in the Age of Augustus -- Concrete Architecture -- Conclusion -- Suggestions for Further Reading -- Chapter 6 The Julio-Claudians, 14-68 CE: The Rise of Roman Dynastic Art -- Timeline -- Introduction -- Tiberius, 14-37 CE, and Caligula, 37-41 CE -- Portraiture -- Dynastic monuments -- Palace architecture and mythological sculpture -- Imperial Villa dining room at Sperlonga -- Claudius, 41-54 CE -- Portraiture -- Dynastic monuments -- Historical reliefs -- Architecture -- Nero, 54-68 CE -- Portraiture of Nero -- Portraiture of Julio-Claudian women -- Palace architecture -- Domus Aurea, Nero's Golden House -- Public Buildings and Interior Decoration, Pompeii -- Painted stucco decoration, Stabian Baths, Pompeii -- Sanctuary of Isis, Pompeii -- Conclusion -- Suggestions for Further Reading -- Chapter 7 The Flavians, 69-96 CE: Civil War, Disaster, and Response -- Timeline.

Civil War of 68-69 CE -- Vespasian and Titus, 69-81 CE -- Portraiture -- Architecture -- Pompeii and Herculaneum -- Domitian, 81-96 CE -- Portraiture -- Historical reliefs -- Architecture -- Conclusion -- Suggestions for Further Reading -- Chapter 8 Trajan and Hadrian, 98-138 CE: Emperors from the Provinces -- Timeline -- Nerva, 96-98 CE -- Trajan, 98-117 CE, and Hadrian, 117-138 CE -- Portraiture of Trajan and Hadrian -- Portraiture of empresses -- Architecture -- Sculpture -- Historical reliefs -- Anaglypha Traiani -- Mythological sculpture -- Mosaics -- Conclusion -- Suggestions for Further Reading -- Chapter 9 Antonine Emperors, 138-192 CE From an Empire of Gold to One of Rust -- Timeline -- Introduction -- Antonine Portraiture -- Portraits of emperors and empresses -- Non-imperial portraiture -- Commodus portraiture -- Architectural Sculpture -- Relief sculpture honoring Hadrian and Antoninus Pius -- Reliefs from victory monuments of Marcus Aurelius -- Architecture -- Wall Painting and Mosaics -- Sarcophagi -- Mythological sarcophagi -- Biographical sarcophagi -- Children's sarcophagi -- Fayum Mummy Portraits -- Conclusion -- Suggestions for Further Reading -- Chapter 10 Civil War and Severan Dynasty, 193-235 CE: Calm before the Storm -- Timeline -- Introduction -- Trends and Developments in Severan Art -- Portraiture -- Baths of Caracalla: Architecture and sculpture in Rome -- Historical reliefs -- Mosaic art under the Severans -- Sarcophagi -- Forma Urbis Romae -- Severan building program at Lepcis Magna -- Conclusion -- Suggestions for Further Reading -- Chapter 11 The Third Century and the Tetrarchy, 235-306 CE: Crisis and Renewal -- Timeline -- Third-Century Emperors and the Tetrarchy -- Philip the Arab, 244-249 CE -- Decius, 249-251 CE -- Valerian, 253-260 CE -- Aurelian, 270-275 CE -- Diocletian, 284-305 CE -- The Tetrarchy.

Coin Portraits of the Third Century CE -- Historical Reliefs -- Decennalia Monument, Forum Romanum, Rome, 303 CE -- Arch of Galerius, Thessalonica, 303 CE -- Sarcophagi -- Imperial Architecture -- Baths of Diocletian -- Architecture and mosaics: Villa at Piazza Armerina, Sicily -- Mosaics from the city of Antioch-on-the-Orontes in the Roman east -- Conclusion -- Suggestions for Further Reading -- Chapter 12 Constantine, 306-337 CE: Christian Empire and the Decline of the West -- Timeline -- Constantine, the First Christian Emperor -- Portraiture -- Architecture at Trier: Building a provincial capital -- Architecture and sculpture at Rome: Augmenting the imperial capital and creating a dynasty -- Constantinian church and tomb architecture in Rome -- Silver vessels in the fourth century CE -- Mosaics -- Conclusion -- Epilogue: The Fall of Rome and the Rise of New Romes -- Suggestions for Further Reading -- Glossary -- Guide to Further Reading -- Index -- End User License Agreement.

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