What you will learn about Roman Art

What You Will Learn about Roman Art

In Module Eight we will examine the culture of the Roman with a focus on the art of the Republic and the Art of the Empire.

Learning Activities

The learning activities for this module include:

Introduction to Ancient Roman Culture

  • READ: A Beginners Guide to Rome (1 minute)
  • READ: The Roman Empire (27 B.C.–393 A.D.): Heilbrunn Timeline of Art History (10 minutes)
  • WATCH: Early Empire: Augustus of Primaporta (5 minutes)
  • WATCH: Visualizing Imperial Rome (14 minutes)
  • READ: Augustan Rule (27 B.C.–14 A.D.) Heilbrunn Timeline of Art History (5 minutes)
  • READ: Introduction to Ancient Rome (5 minutes)
  • READ: Introduction to Ancient Roman Art (10 minutes)
  • WATCH: Digging Through Time (3 minutes)

Roman Architecture

  • READ: Roman Architecture (10 minutes)
  • READ: Republican: Temple of Jupiter Optimus Maximus, Rome (5 minutes)
  • WATCH: Republican: Temple of Portunus (3 minutes)
  • READ: Republican: Temple of Portunus (5 minutes)
  • READ: Republican: Maison Carrée (5 minutes)
  • READ: Forum Romanum (The Roman Forum) (10 minutes)
  • READ: Imperial Fora (10 minutes)
  • WATCH: Early Empire: Colosseum (Flavian Amphitheater) (8 minutes)
  • READ: Early Empire: Forum and Markets of Trajan (10 minutes)
  • WATCH: Early Empire: Forum and Markets of Trajan (6 minutes)
  • WATCH: Middle Empire: Hadrian, Building the Wall (3 minutes)
  • WATCH: Middle Empire: The Pantheon (9 minutes)
  • READ: Middle Empire: The Pantheon (10 minutes)
  • WATCH: Middle Empire: Hadrian, The Imperial Palace, Tivoli (2 minutes)
  • WATCH: Middle Empire: Maritime Theatre at Hadrian’s Villa, Tivoli (5 minutes)
  • WATCH: Middle Empire: Hadrian’s Villa, Tivoli: A virtual tour (8 minutes)
  • WATCH: Late Empire: Basilica of Maxentius and Constantine (4 minutes)
  • WATCH: Early Empire: Markets of Trajan
  • READ: Roman Housing: Heilbrunn Timeline of Art History (10 minutes)
  • READ: Roman Domestic Architecture (5 minutes)
  • READ: Roman Domestic Architecture INSULAE (5 minutes)
  • READ: Roman Domestic Architecture VILLA (5 minutes)
  • READ: Roman funeral rituals and social status: the Amiternum tomb and the tomb of the Haterii (5 minutes)

Roman Painting

  • READ: Pompeii: House of the Vettii (10 minutes)
  • READ: Roman Painting: Heilbrunn Timeline of Art History (10 minutes)
  • READ: Roman Wall Painting Styles (10 minutes)
  • READ: The Augustan Villa at Boscotrecase: Heilbrunn Timeline of Art History (5 minutes)
  • READ: Boscoreale: Frescoes from the Villa of P. Fannius Synistor: Heilbrunn Timeline of Art History (5 minutes)
  • WATCH: Empire: Painted Garden, Villa of Livia (4 minutes)
  • READ: Still Life with Peaches (10 minutes)
  • WATCH: Dionysiac Frieze, Villa of Mysteries, Pompeii (9 minutes)
  • WATCH: Middle Empire: Pair of Centaurs Fighting Cats of Prey from Hadrian’s Villa, Tivoli (5 minutes)

Roman Portrait Sculpture

  • READ: Republican: Tomb of the Scipios and the Sarcophagus of Scipio Barbatus (4 minutes)
  • READ: Roman Portrait Sculpture: Republican through Constantinian: Heilbrunn Timeline of Art History (10 minutes)
  • WATCH: Republican: Veristic Male Portrait (3 minutes)
  • READ: Republican: Head of a Roman Patrician (5 minutes)
  • WATCH: Republican: Capitoline Brutus (4 minutes)
  • READ: Early Empire: Augustus of Primaporta (5 minutes)
  • READ: Early Empire: Portrait of Vespasian (5 minutes)
  • WATCH: Early Empire: Portrait Bust of a Flavian Woman (Fonseca Bust) (4 minutes)
  • READ: Early Empire: Gemma Augustea (5 minutes)
  • WATCH: The Art of Gem carving (3 minutes)
  • READ: Middle Empire: Bronze Head from a Statue of the Emperor Hadrian (5 minutes)
  • READ: Middle Empire: Equestrian Sculpture of Marcus Aurelius (5 minutes)
  • WATCH: Middle Empire: Equestrian Sculpture of Marcus Aurelius (4 minutes)
  • READ: Eastern Religions in the Roman World: Heilbrunn Timeline of Art History (5 minutes)
  • READ: Mystery Cults in the Greek and Roman World: Heilbrunn Timeline of Art History (10 minutes)
  • WATCH: Late Empire: Portraits of the Four Tetrarchs (6 minutes)
  • WATCH: Late Empire: The Colossus of Constantine (5 minutes)

Roman Narrative Sculpture

  • READ: Early Empire: Ara Pacis (10 minutes)
  • WATCH: Early Empire: Ara Pacis (11 minutes)
  •  READ: Early Empire: Preparations for a Sacrifice (5 minutes)
  • WATCH: Early Empire: Relief from the Arch of Titus, showing The Spoils of Jerusalem being brought into Rome (7 minutes)
  • READ: Early Empire: The Arch of Titus (7 minutes)
  • WATCH AND READ: Early Empire: Column of Trajan (6 minutes)
  • READ: Early Empire: Column of Trajan (7 minutes)
  • WATCH: Middle Empire: Empire, Medea Sarcophagus (5 minutes)
  • WATCH: Middle Empire: Ludovisi Battle Sarcophagus (6 minutes)
  • WATCH: Late Empire: Arch of Constantine (12 minutes)
  • READ: Late Empire: Arch of Constantine (10 minutes)

Total: 7 hours and 10 minutes