Roman Art Part 2 Sculpture & Painting Roman Art Republic ( c 509-27 BC) Empire (27 BC – 476 AD)

Sculpture Portraits which emphasized extreme realism Reliefs which depicted civic and military events Statues of rulers Sarcophagi Copies & adaptations of Greek originals

Sculptural Media & Techniques Marble & Bronze “Copies” of Greek originals were often adaptations rather than direct copies because (a) faces were more realistic (b) Poses were more forceful (c) Bracing had to be added between body & limbs for added strength

Title: Roman Patrician with two ancestor Busts Date: Late 1st century BCE. Source/ Museum: Museo Montemartini, Rome Medium: marble Size: life-size

Title: Augustus of Primaporta. Possibly Roman copy of a statue of ca Title: Augustus of Primaporta. Possibly Roman copy of a statue of ca. 20 CE Artist: n/a Date: ca. 20 CE Source/ Museum: Musei Vaticani, Braccio Nuovo, Rome Medium: marble Size: height 6'8" (2.03 m)

Title: Equestrian Statue of Marcus Aurelius Artist: N/A Date: 161-80 CE Source/ Museum: Museo del Palazzo dei Conservatori, Rome Medium: bronze Size: over-life-size

Title: Copying Greek Sculptures: The triangulation process Artist: n/a Date: n/a Source/ Museum: n/a Medium: n/a Size: n/a

Title: Portrait of Constantine the Great Artist: n/a Date: Early 4th century CE Source/ Museum: Museo del Palazzo dei Conservatori, Rome Medium: Marble Size: height 8' (2.4 m)

Title: Portrait of Hadrian Artist: n/a Date: After 117 CE Source/ Museum: Museo Nazionale Romano, Rome Medium: marble Size: n/a

Title: Brutus Artist: n/a Date: Late 4th or early 3rd century BCE Source/ Museum: Museo del Palazzo dei Conservatori, Rome Medium: bronze Size: slightly over life-size

Title: Veristic male portrait Artist: n/a Date: Early 1st century BCE. Source/ Museum: Musei Vaticani, Rome Medium: marble Size: life-size

Title: Portrait of Faustina the Younger Artist: N/A Date: ca. 147-148 CE Source/ Museum: Museo Capitolino, Rome Medium: marble Size: height 23 5/8" (60 cm)

Title: Altar base of Antoninus Pius and Faustina. Decursio relief Artist: n/a Date: ca. 161 CE Source/ Museum: Musei Vaticani, Rome Medium: marble Size: n/a

Title: Altar base of Antoninus Pius and Faustina. Apotheosis relief Artist: n/a Date: ca. 161 CE Source/ Museum: Musei Vaticani, Rome Medium: marble Size: n/a

Painting Illusionistic wall paintings developed in four styles:incrustation, architectural, ornate, and intricate Panel paintings were produced in tempera & encaustic

Roman painting included wall paintings,which decorated public buildings & houses, & panel paintings, which decorated houses. Wall painting was more important and innovative. Its illusionistic effects established the foundations of later western painting

Purposes & Subject Matter Religious Secular (non-religious, decorative) such as: landscapes, cityscapes genre scenes still-life Media & Techniques: True fresco, tempera on wood panels (for small portable pictures ), Encaustic for small pictures & for mummy portraits made in Egypt under Roman rule

Title: August Mau's Four Styles of Pompeian wall painting Artist: n/a Date: n/a Source/ Museum: n/a Medium: n/a Size: n/a

Title: First Style painting in the Samnite House, Herculaneum Artist: n/a Date: Late 2d century BCE Source/ Museum: n/a Medium: n/a Size: n/a

Title: Second style wall painting from the Villa of the Mysteries, Pompeii. Scenes of Dionysiac Mystery Cult Artist: n/a Date: ca. 60-50 BCE Source/ Museum: n/a Medium: n/a Size: n/a

Title: Second style wall painting from the Villa of Publius Fannius Synistor at Boscoreale near Naples Artist: n/a Date: Mid-1st century BCE Source/ Museum: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, Rogers Fund, 1903 (03.14.13) Medium: Fresco on line plasters Size: Height: 8' 8 1/2” x Length 19' 7 1/8” x Width 10' 11 1/2” (265.4 x 583.9 x 334 cm)

Title: Second style wall painting from the Villa of Publius Fannius Synistor at Boscoreale near Naples Artist: n/a Date: Mid-1st century BCE Source/ Museum: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, Rogers Fund, 1903 (03.14.13) Medium: Fresco on line plasters Size: Height: 8' 8 1/2” x Length 19' 7 1/8” x Width 10' 11 1/2” (265.4 x 583.9 x 334 cm)

Title: Third Style wall painting from Villa of Agrippa Postumus, Boscotrecase Artist: n/a Date: ca. 10 BCE Source/ Museum: Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York. Rogers Fund, 1970. (20.192.1) Medium: Fresco on line plasters Size: Height: 91 3/4” (233.05 cm)

Title: Fourth Style wall painting, Ixion Room, House of Vettii, Pompeii Artist: n/a Date: 63-79 CE Source/ Museum: n/a Medium: n/a Size: n/a

Woman with a Stylus

Title: Still life of peaches and water jar, from Herculaneum Artist: n/a Date: ca. 50 CE Source/ Museum: Museo Archeologico Nazionale, Naples Medium: n/a Size: n/a

Cross Cultural Trends Sarcophagus Mummy case of Artemidoros From Faiyum AD 100-200 Stucco casing with portrait in encaustic on limewood with added gold leaf Approx 67in,highx 17in.wide x 14 in deep

Title: Portrait of a woman, from Hawara in the Fayyum, Lower Egypt Artist: N/A Date: ca. 110-300 CE Source/ Museum: Royal Museum of Scotland Medium: encaustic on wooden panel Size: N/A

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