Ancient Roman
The period, styles, and culture of the state centered on the city of Rome from the founding of the city until the city was sacked by the Visigoths.
Ancient Roman
The period, styles, and culture of the state centered on the city of Rome from the founding of the city until the city was sacked by the Visigoths.
Basics to get you started
Ancient Roman art, an introduction
Roman wall painting styles
Digging through time: Archaeology in Rome
Roman domestic architecture: the insula
Roman domestic architecture: the villa
Rome’s history in four faces at The Met
The rediscovery of Pompeii and the other cities of Vesuvius
Pompeii, an introduction
Damnatio memoriae—Roman sanctions against memory
Italo-Roman building techniques
The Modern Invention of Ancient White Marble
Obelisks and ancient Rome
Classic, classical, and classicism explained
Classical orders of architecture explained
A brief history of the representation of the body in Western painting
A brief history of the representation of the body in Western sculpture
Ancient and Byzantine mosaic materials
Contrapposto explained
Rewriting history: damnatio memoriae in ancient Rome
Classicism and the Early Middle Ages
Women in Roman art
Early Christian art and architecture after Constantine
Works of Art
Artists
Dioskourides, Gemma Augustea, 9 – 12 C.E., 19 x 23 cm, double-layered sardonyx with gold, gold-plated silver (Kunsthistorisches Museum Vienna; photo: Steven Zucker, CC BY-NC-SA 2.0)
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