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

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

3. 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

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

5. 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)

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

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

8. 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)

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

10. 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

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

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

13. 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

14. 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

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

16. 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

17. 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

18. 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

19. 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

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

21. 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 ( )
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 x 334 cm)

22. 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 ( )
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 x 334 cm)

23. 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, ( )
Medium: Fresco on line plasters
Size: Height: 91 3/4” ( cm)

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

25. Woman with a Stylus

26. 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

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

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

29. The End