37. Plan of the Villa of the Mysteries. Pompeii, Early Second Century BCE 1) Entrance Foyer, 2) Peristyle, 3) Atrium, 4) Pool (Water Basin), 5) Tablinium (office, official Reception Room), 6) Room with Paintings of Mysteries, 7) Terrace, 8) Bedroom
Artist: n/a Title: She-Wolf Medium: Bronze, glass-paste eyes Size: height 33½" (85 cm) Date: c. 500 BCE, or 450–430 BCE with 15th or 16th century additions (the twins) Source/Museum: Museo Capitolino, Rome
Artist: n/a Title: The Roman Republic and Empire Medium: n/a Size: n/a Date: n/a Source/Museum: n/a
Artist: n/a Title: Elements of Architecture: Arch, Vault, and Dome Medium: n/a Size: n/a Date: n/a Source/Museum: n/a
Artist: n/a Title: Porta Augusta, Perugia Medium: n/a Size: n/a Date: 3rd to 2nd century BCE Source/Museum: Perugia, Italy
Artist: n/a Title: Reconstruction of an Etruscan Temple Medium: n/a Size: n/a Date: n/a Source/Museum: Based on archaeological evidence and descriptions by Vitruvius. University of Rome, Istituto di Etruscologia e Antichità Italiche
Artist: n/a Title: Plan of an Etruscan Temple Medium: n/a Size: n/a Date: n/a Source/Museum: Based on descriptions by Vitruvius
Artist: Master sculptor Vulca (?) Title: Apollo of Veii Medium: Painted terra cotta Size: height 5'10" (1.8 m) Date: c. 510–500 BCE Source/Museum: Temple of Minerva, Portenaccio, Veii. / Museo Nazionale di Villa Giulia, Rome
Artist: n/a Title: Burial chamber, Tomb of the Reliefs Medium: n/a Size: n/a Date: 3rd century BCE Source/Museum: Cerveteri
Artist: n/a Title: Sarcophagus Medium: Terra cotta Size: length 6"7" (2.06 m) Date: c. 520 BCE Source/Museum: Fom Cerveteri. /Museo Nazionale di Villa Giulia, Rome
Artist: n/a Title: Head of a man (known as Brutus) Medium: Bronze, eyes of painted ivory Size: height 12½" (31.8 cm) Date: c. mid-3rd century BCE Source/Museum: Palazzo dei Conservatori, Rome
Artist: n/a Title: Aulus Metellus Medium: Bronze Size: height 5'11" (1.8 m) Date: c. 80 BCE Source/Museum: Found near Perugia. / Museo Archeologico Nazionale, Florence
Artist: n/a Title: Portrait of Pompey the Great Medium: Marble Size: height 9 ¼" (24.8 cm) Date: 30 CE. copy of sculpture of c. 50 BCE Source/Museum: Ny Carlsberg Glyptotek, Copenhagen
Artist: n/a Title: Denarius with Portrait of Julius Caesar Medium: Silver Size: diameter approximately ¾" (1.9 cm) Date: 44 BCE Source/Museum: American Numismatic Society, New York
Artist: n/a Title: Pont Du Gard Medium: n/a Size: n/a Date: Late 1st century BCE Source/Museum: Nîmes, France
Artist: n/a Title: Model of the Sanctuary of Fortuna Primigenia. Palestrina, Italy Medium: n/a Size: n/a Date: Late 2nd Century BCE Source/Museum: Museo Archeologico Nazionale, Italy
Artist: n/a Title: Plan of Temple Forum Boarium (Cattle Market), Rome Medium: n/a Size: n/a Date: n/a Source/Museum: n/a
Artist: n/a Title: Maison Carrée Medium: n/a Size: n/a Date: c. 20 BCE Source/Museum: Nîmes, France
Artist: n/a Title: View of the Roman Forum Medium: n/a Size: n/a Date: n/a Source/Museum: n/a
Artist: n/a Title: Augustus of Primaporta Medium: Marble (originally colored) Size: height 6'8" (2.03 m) Date: Early 1st century CE. Perhaps a copy of a bronze statue of c. 20 BCE Source/Museum: Musei Vaticani, Braccio Nuovo, Rome
Artist: n/a Title: Augustus of Primaporta Medium: A copy with color restored Size: n/a Date: n/a Source/Museum: Vatican Museum, Rome
Artist: n/a Title: Ara Pacis Augustae (altar of Augustan Peace), view of west side Medium: Marble Size: approx. 34'5" (10.5 m) X 38' (11.6 m) Date: 13–9 BCE Source/Museum: Rome
Artist: n/a Title: Imperial Procession Medium: n/a Size: height 5'2" (1.6 m) Date: n/a Source/Museum: Detail of a relief on the south side of the Ara Pacis
Artist: n/a Title: Allegory of Peace Medium: n/a Size: height 5'2" (1.6 m) Date: n/a Source/Museum: Relief on the east side of the Ara Pacis
Artist: n/a Title: Gemma Augustea Medium: Onyx Size: 7½ X 9" (19 X 23 cm) Date: Early 1st century CE Source/Museum: Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna
Artist: n/a Title: Aerial View of The City of Pompeii Medium: n/a Size: n/a Date: 79 CE Source/Museum: n/a
Artist: n/a Title: Street In Pompeii Medium: n/a Size: n/a Date: n/a Source/Museum: n/a
Artist: n/a Title: Plan of the Villa of the Mysteries. Pompeii, Early Second Century BCE 1) Entrance Foyer, 2) Peristyle, 3) Atrium, 4) Pool (Water Basin), 5) Tablinium (office, official Reception Room), 6) Room with Paintings of Mysteries, 7) Terrace, 8) Bedroom Medium: n/a Size: n/a Date: n/a Source/Museum: n/a
Artist: n/a Title: Peristyle Garden, House of The Vettii Medium: n/a Size: n/a Date: Rebuilt 62–79 CE Source/Museum: Pompeii
Artist: n/a Title: Initiation Rites of the Cult of Bacchus (?) Medium: Wall painting Size: n/a Date: c. 60–50 BCE Source/Museum: In the Villa of the Mysteries, Pompeii
Artist: n/a Title: Garden Scene Medium: Detail of a wall painting Size: n/a Date: Late 1st century BCE Source/Museum: From the dining room of the Villa of Livia at Primaporta, near Rome. / Museo Nazionale Romano, Rome
Artist: n/a Title: Reconstructed bedroom Medium: n/a Size: n/a Date: Late 1st century BCE, with later furnishings. Source/Museum: House of Publius Fannius Synistor, Boscoreale, near Pompeii. / The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York. Rogers Fund, 1903 (03.14.13)
Artist: n/a Title: Cityscape Medium: Detail of a wall painting Size: n/a Date: Late 1st century CE Source/Museum: From a bedroom in the House of Publius Fannius Synistor, Boscoreale. / The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York. Rogers Fund, 1903 (03.14.13
Artist: n/a Title: Detail of A Wall Painting Medium: n/a Size: n/a Date: Mid-1st century CE Source/Museum: In the house of M. Lucretius Fronto, Pompeii
Artist: n/a Title: Still Life Medium: Detail of a wall painting Size: approx. 1'2" X 1 ½" (35.5 X 31.7 cm) Date: Before 79 CE Source/Museum: From House of the Stags (Cervi), Herculaneum. / Museo Nazionale, Naples.
Artist: n/a Title: Young Woman Writing Medium: Detail of a wall painting Size: diameter 14 ⅝ " (37 cm) Date: Before 79 CE Source/Museum: From Pompeii. / Museo Archeològico Nazionale, Naples
Artist: n/a Title: The Arch of Titus Medium: Concrete and white marble Size: height 50' (15 m) Date: c. 81 CE (Restored 1822–24) Source/Museum: Rome
Artist: n/a Title: Spoils from the Temple of Solomon, Jerusalem Medium: Marble Size: height 6'8" (2.03 m) Date: n/a Source/Museum: Relief in the passageway of the Arch of Titus
Artist: n/a Title: Triumphal Procession, Titus In Chariot Medium: Marble Size: height 6'8" (2.03 m) Date: n/a Source/Museum: Relief in the passageway of the Arch of Titus.
Artist: n/a Title: Flavian Amphitheater (Colosseum) from the air Medium: n/a Size: n/a Date: 70–80 CE Source/Museum: Rome
Artist: n/a Title: A Young Flavian Woman Medium: Marble Size: height 25" (65.5 cm) Date: c. 90 CE Source/Museum: Museo Capitolino, Rome
Artist: n/a Title: A Young Flavian Woman Medium: Marble Size: height 25" (65.5 cm) Date: c. 90 CE Source/Museum: Museo Capitolino, Rome
Artist: n/a Title: Middle-Aged Flavian Woman Medium: Marble Size: height 9 ½" (24.1 cm) Date: Late 1st century CE Source/Museum: Musei Vaticani, Museo Gregoriano Etrusco, Rome. Profano, ex-Lateranese, Rome
Artist: n/a Title: Middle-Aged Flavian Woman Medium: Marble Size: height 9 ½" (24.1 cm) Date: Late 1st century CE Source/Museum: Musei Vaticani, Museo Gregoriano Etrusco, Rome. Profano, ex-Lateranese, Rome
Artist: n/a Title: Model of the Forum Romanum and Imperial Forums, Rome Medium: n/a Size: n/a Date: c. 325 CE Source/Museum: n/a
Artist: n/a Title: Plan of Trajan's Forum Medium: n/a Size: n/a Date: c. 110–113 CE Source/Museum: n/a
Artist: Drawn by Gilbert Gorski.Trajan’s architect was Apollodorus of Damascus Title: Restored perspective view of the central hall, Basilica Ulpia, Rome Medium: n/a Size: n/a Date: c. 112 CE Source/Museum: n/a
Artist: n/a Title: Main Hall, Markets of Trajan, Rome Medium: n/a Size: n/a Date: 100–12 CE Source/Museum: n/a
Artist: n/a Title: Column of Trajan Medium: Marble Size: overall height with base 125' (38 m), column alone 97'8" (29.77 m) relief 625' (190.5 m) long Date: 113–16 or after 117 CE Source/Museum: Rome
Artist: n/a Title: Romans Crossing The Danube and Building A Fort Medium: Marble Size: height of the spiral band approx. 36" (91 cm) Date: 113–16 or after 117 CE Source/Museum: Detail of the lowest part of the Column of Trajan
Bust of Trajan, British Museum
Artist: n/a Title: Pantheon Medium: n/a Size: n/a Date: c. 118–128 CE Source/Museum: Rome
Artist: n/a Title: Reconstruction Drawing of the Pantheon Medium: n/a Size: n/a Date: n/a Source/Museum: Rome
Artist: n/a Title: Dome of the Pantheon with light from the oculus on its coffered ceiling Medium: Brick, concrete, marble, veneer Size: diameter of dome 143' (43.5 m) Date: 125–128 CE Source/Museum: Rome
Artist: n/a Title: Circle section of the Pantheon Medium: n/a Size: n/a Date: n/a Source/Museum: Rome
Artist: n/a Title: Hadrian’s Wall Medium: n/a Size: n/a Date: 2nd century CE Source/Museum: Great Britain. View from near Housesteads, England
Artist: Herakleitos Title: The Unswept Floor Medium: Mosaic variant of a 2nd-century BCE painting by Sosos of Pergamon Size: n/a Date: 2nd century CE Source/Museum: Musei Vaticani, Museo Gregoriano Profano, Rome
Damnatio Memoriae
Artist: n/a Title: Equestrian Statue of Marcus Aurelius Medium: Bronze, originally gilded Size: height of statue 11'6" (3.5 m) Date: c. 176 CE Source/Museum: Museo Capitolino, Rome
Artist: n/a Title: Commodus as Hercules Medium: Marble Size: height 46 ½" (118 cm) Date: c. 191–92 CE Source/Museum: Esquiline Hill, Rome / Palazzo dei Conservatori, Rome
Artist: n/a Title: Septimius Severus, Julia Domna, and Their Children, Geta and Caracalla Medium: Painted wood Size: diameter 14" (35.6 cm) Date: c. 200 CE Source/Museum: Fayum, Egypt / Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, Preussischer Kulturbesitz, Antikensammlung
Artist: n/a Title: Caracalla Medium: Marble Size: height 14 ½" (36.2 cm) Date: Early 3rd century CE Source/Museum: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York. Samuel D. Lee Fund, 1940 (40.11.1A)
Artist: n/a Title: Baths of Caracalla Medium: n/a Size: n/a Date: c. 211–17 CE Source/Museum: Rome
Artist: n/a Title: Plan of The Baths of Caracalla, Rome Medium: n/a Size: n/a Date: n/a Source/Museum: n/a
Artist: n/a Title: Church of Santa Maria Degli Angeli (Baths of Diocletian) Medium: n/a Size: n/a Date: c. 298–306 CE. Converted into a church by Michelangelo in 1563 Source/Museum: n/a
Artist: n/a Title: The Tetrarchs Medium: Porphyry Size: height of figures 51" (129 cm) Date: c. 300 CE Source/Museum: Brought from Constantinople in 1204, installed at the corner of the façade of the Cathedral of Saint Mark, Venice
Artist: n/a Title: Audience Hall of Constantine Chlorus (now known as the Basilica). Interior: view of the nave. Medium: n/a Size: height of room 100' (30.5 m) Date: Early 4th century Source/Museum: Trier, Germany
Artist: n/a Title: Audience Hall of Constantine Chlorus (now known as the Basilica). Exterior. Medium: n/a Size: n/a Date: Early 4th century Source/Museum: Trier, Germany
Artist: n/a Title: Constantine The Great Medium: Marble Size: height of head 8'6" (2.6 m) Date: 325–26 CE Source/Museum: Basilica of Maxentius and Constantine, Rome / Palazzo dei Conservatori, Rome
Artist: n/a Title: Arch of Constantine Medium: n/a Size: n/a Date: 312–15 CE (dedicated July 25, 315) Source/Museum: Rome
Artist: n/a Title: Basilica of Maxentius and Constantine (Basilica Nova) Medium: n/a Size: n/a Date: 306–13 CE Source/Museum: Rome