Roman Republic

The period and style coinciding with when Rome was ruled as a republic, from its founding through the formal establishment of the empire.

Dates

c. 509–27 B.C.E.

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Roman Republic

The period and style coinciding with when Rome was ruled as a republic, from its founding through the formal establishment of the empire.

Dates

c. 509–27 B.C.E.

Places

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Basics Works of Art

Basics to get you started

Ancient Roman art, an introduction

Rome’s history in four faces at The Met

Classical orders of architecture explained

Pompeii, an introduction

Contrapposto explained

Women in Roman art

Ancient and Byzantine mosaic materials

Digging through time: Archaeology in Rome

Roman domestic architecture: the insula

Roman domestic architecture: the villa

Roman wall painting styles

Rewriting history: damnatio memoriae in ancient Rome

Works of Art

So-called Altar of Domitius Ahenobarbus

late 2nd century B.C.E.

Scenes from Homer’s Odyssey, Via Graziosa

mid-1st century, before 46 B.C.E.

Room M of the Villa of Publius Fannius Synistor, Boscoreale

c. 50–40 B.C.E.

Temple of Portunus, Rome

c. 75 B.C.E.

The conservator’s eye: Marble statue of a wounded warrior

Greek original c. 460–450 B.C.E.; Roman copy c. 138–181 C.E.

Tomb of the Scipios and the sarcophagus of Scipio Barbatus

early 3rd century B.C.E.–1st century C.E.

early 3rd century B.C.E.

Temple of Jupiter Optimus Maximus, Rome

begun 6th century B.C.E.–509 B.C.E.; rebuilt c. 60s B.C.E., 70s C.E., 81–96 C.E.

Maison Carrée

c. 4–7 C.E.

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