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Name: Head of a Roman Patrician
Date: 75 BCE
Period/Style: Republican Roman
Artist: Unknown
Patron: unidentified
Location: Osimo, Italy
Medium: marble
Techniques: sculpture in the round
Function: depict the brutal truth
Context: older= wiser, Roman Republic
Descriptive Terms: verism

Name: Man with portrait busts of his ancestors
Date: Late 1st century
Period/Style: Republican Rome
Artist: Unknown
Patron: unidentified
Location: Rome
Medium: marble
Techniques: subtractive sculpture
Function: display man and ancestors
Context: ancient way to remember deceased, verism
Descriptive Terms: holds with care

Name: Sanctuary of Fortuna
Period/Style: Republican Rome
Date: 100s BCE
Location: Palestrina, Italy
Medium: concrete
Artist: Unknown
Patron: Unknown
Technique:
Context:
Function: contained shops
Descriptive Terms: arcade, tholos, several terraces, ramps

Name: Augustus of Primaporta
Period/Style: Early Imperial Rome
Date: 20 BCE
Location: Primaporta, Italy
Medium: originally bronze
Artist: Unknown
Patron: Caesar Augustus
Technique: bronze casting (marble copy)
Context: 180 years of peace, Roman Empire
Function: propaganda
Descriptive Terms: displays eternal youth, descendant of Venus, Classical Greek style

Name: Hadrian Portrait
Period/Style: Early Imperial Rome
Date: 120 CE
Location: Rome, Italy
Medium: marble
Artist: Unknown
Patron: Hadrian
Technique: chiseling
Context: first emperor with beard, post-Trajan rule, Greek influence
Function: depict Hadrian as mature but eternal
Descriptive Terms: appears like Greek god, textured hair

Name: Arch of Titus
Period/Style: Early Imperial Rome
Date: 80 BCE
Artist/Architect: Unknown
Patron: Domitian (Titus's brother)
Medium: marble
Technique: triumphal arch, relief
Function: honor Titus/ commemorate conquest of Judea
Context: Flavian rule, return to similar ideas of republic, Titus became a god in afterlife
Descriptive Terms: relief panels, free standing arch
Location: Rome, Italy

Name: Portrait bust of a Flavian woman
Period/Style: Early Imperial Rome
Date: 90 CE
Artist/Architect: Unknown
Patron: Unknown
Medium: marble
Technique: corkscrew drilling
Function: depict idealized beauty
Context: Flavian (Vaspian) rule, looks important for women
Descriptive Terms: corkscrew curls, stylized hair, idealism
Location: Rome, Italy

Name: Ara Pacis Augustae
Period/Style: Early Imperial Rome
Date: 13-9 BCE
Artist/Architect: Unknown
Patron: Augustus (?)
Medium: marble
Technique: high and low relief
Function: commemorate Augustan peace (180 years)
Context: "Golden Age", 180 years of life
Descriptive Terms: precinct, procession, friezes, fertility, propaganda
Location: Rome, Italy

Name: Colosseum
Period/Style: Early Imperial Rome
Date: 80 CE
Artist/Architect: Unknown
Patron: Vaspian (the Flavians)
Medium: concrete, wood
Technique: columns, arches, barrel vaults
Function: theater for gladiatorial combats
Context: end of Julio-Claudian rule
Descriptive Terms: Tuscan, Corinthian, and Ionic columns, arcades
Location: Rome, Italy

Name: spiral frieze from the relief sculptures (column of Trajan)
Period/Style: High Imperial Rome
Date: 112 CE
Artist/Architect: Apollodorus of Damascus(?)
Patron: Trajan
Medium: marble
Technique: low relief
Function: recounts Trajan's two successful campaigns against the Dacians
Context: greatest geographic Extent
Descriptive Terms: winding narrative, over 150 episodes and 2500 figures
Location: Rome, Italy

Name: Temple of Portunus
Period/Style: Republican Rome
Date: 75 BCE
Artist/Architect: Unknown
Patron: Unknown
Medium: stone, stucco
Technique: pseudo peripteral
Function: temple (place of worship)
Context: verism, Greek Etruscan and Ancient Near East influence
Descriptive Terms: alternating columns, single wide staircase
Location: Rome, Italy
Name: Equestrian statue of Marcus Aurelius
Period/Style: High Imperial Rome
Date: 175 CE
Artist/Architect: Unknown
Patron: Marcus Aurelius
Medium: bronze
Technique: bronze casting
Function:display Aurelius as omnipotent conqueror
Context: co-emperors, largest extent of Roman rule
Descriptive Terms: Aurelius appears weary and saddened
Location: Rome, Italy

Name: Forum of Trajan
Period/Style: High Imperial Rome
Date: 112 CE
Artist/Architect: Apollodorus of Damascus
Patron: Trajan
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Name: Pantheon
Period/Style: High Imperial Rome
Date: 118-125 BCE
Location: Rome, Italy
Artist/Architect: Unknown
Patron: Hadrian
Medium: concrete
Technique: coffers, cylindrical drums, dome
Function: temple/ place of worship
Context: acknowledged the "heavens", expansion of the dome, Roman invention
Descriptive Terms: oculus, columns in front

Name: Ludovisi Battle Sarcophagus
Period/Style: Late Imperial Rome
Date: 260 CE
Location: Rome,Italy
Artist/Architect: Unknown
Patron: Unknown
Medium: marble
Technique: high relief
Function: display a chaotic scene between Romans and barbarians; tomb
Context: chaotic times, philosophy and burial popular
Descriptive Terms: several figures, anatomical accuracy, warfare

Name: Colossal Head of Constantine
Period/Style: Late Imperial Rome
Date: 315-330 CE
Artist: Unknown
Patron: Constantine
Location: Rome, Italy
Medium: Marble
Technique: chiseled
Context: revival of Augustan image, Roman Empire losing dominance, economic and political crisis
Function: depict Constantine w/ large stature
Descriptive Terms: youthful, 8.6 foot tall head

Name: Arch of Constantine
Period/Style: Late Imperial Rome
Date: 315 CE
Artist: Unknown
Patron: Constantine
Location: Rome, Italy
Medium: marble
Technique: high relief, triumphal arch
Context: Weakening of the Roman Empire, Constantine rule, Christianity
Function: commemorate Hadrian, Marcus Aurelius, Trajan, and Constantine
Descriptive Terms: free standing arch, newer addition doesn't follow classical perspective

First Style

Name: First Style Wall Painting
Period/Style: Roman Republic
Date: late second century BCE
Artist: unknown
Patron: Unknown
Location: Italy
Medium: painted stucco
Technique: stucco relief
Context: Roman Republic
Function:imitate costly marble panels
Descriptive Terms: decoration, masonry style

Second Style

Name: Second Style Wall Painting
Period/Style: Roman Republic
Date: 50-40 BCE
Artist: Unknown
Patron: Unknown
Location: Italy
Medium: fresco
Technique: true fresco painting
Context: antithesis of First Style
Function: create atmospheric illusion
Descriptive Terms: "transcends" past walls, atmospheric perspective, intuitive perspective

Third Style

Name: Third Style Wall Painting
Period/Style: Early and High Imperial Rome
Date: 10 BCE
Artist: Unknown
Patron: Unknown
Location: Italy
Medium: fresco
Technique: true fresco, linearization
Context:
Function:reassert the primacy of the wall
Descriptive Terms: linear forms, monochromatic background

Fourth Style

Name: Fourth Style Wall Painting
Period/Style: Early and High Imperial Rome
Date: 64 BCE
Artist: Unknown
Patron: Unknown
Location: Italy
Medium: fresco
Context:
Function: create illusion on wall
Descriptive Terms: architectural motif, mythological references