| Description |
304 pages : illustrations (some color), maps ; 26 cm |
| Contents |
Introduction. The land ; Chronology ; The political framework (The Republic ; The empire) ; Art in the service of the state ; Rome and Greek art (Three periods of Greek art ; Interconnections) -- The Villanovan and Etruscan forerunners : 1000-200 BC. The Villanovans ; The Etruscans ; Architecture ; Sculpture (Temple terracottas ; Animal sculpture ; Funerary sculpture ; Statuary ; Portraits) ; Painting ; Rome, the Etruscans, and Latium ; Stories of early Rome -- The Roman Republic : 200-27 BC. An early sarcophagus ; Sculpture (Historical relief sculpture ; Portraiture) ; Wall paintings (An early tomb ; House walls ; Four Pompeian styles) ; Mosaics ; Architecture (Villas and houses ; Aqueducts ; Sanctuaries ; Temples) Towri planning (The Roman forum ; The castrum) -- Augustus and the imperial idea : 27 BC-AD 14. Architecture (The forum and Tomb of Augustus : Theaters) ; Sculpture (Portraits ; Reliefs) ; Wall paintings ; Stucco -- The Julio-Claudians : AD 14-68. The Gemma Augustea ; Imperial patronage in the provinces ; Imperial architecture and sculpture ; Portraits (The other Julio-Claudians ; Ordinary citizens) ; Sculpture (Piety ; The imperial hero) ; Public works ; Architecture (The underground basilica ; Nero's golden house) -- The Flavians : savior to despot : AD 69-98. Vespasian ; Imperial architecture (The Colosseum ; The Arch of Titus ; The Flavian palace) ; Sculpture (Imperial reliefs ; Plebeian reliefs ; Portraits) ; Pompeii and Herculaneum (The city of Pompeii ; Paintings in the Fourth Pompeian style ; Provincialism in art) -- Trajan, Optimus Princeps : AD 98-117. The Baths of Trajan ; The forum and markets of Trajan ; The Column of Trajan ; Other Trajanic sculptural relief ; The Arch of Trajan at Benevento ; Timgad -- Hadrian and the classical revival : AD 117-138. Architecture (Hadrian's villa ; The Pantheon ; Other Hadrianic buildings) ; Portraits ; Reliefs ; Sarcophagi (Attic sarcophagi ; Asiatic sarcophagi ; Strigil sarcophagi) -- The Antonines : AD 138-193. The Antonine family ; The reign of Antoninus Pius (Portraits ; Architecture ; Reliefs) ; The reign of Marcus Aurelius and Lucius Verus (Portraits ; The base of the Column of Antoninus Pius ; Panels from a triumphal arch ; The Column of Marcus Aurelius ; Sarcophagi) ; The reign of Commodus -- The Severans : AD 193-235. The reign of Septimus Severus (Portraits ; Triumphal arches ; Architecture) ; The reign of Caracalla (Public baths ; Sarcophagi) -- The soldier emperors : AD 235-284. Coins ; Portraits (Maximinus Thrax ; Balbinus ; Philip the Arab ; Trebonianus Gallus ; A female portrait ; Gallienus ; Aurelian) ; The Aurelian Wall ; Sarcophagi -- The Tetrachs : AD 284-312. The establishment of the tetrarchy ; Architecture in Spalato ; Architecture in Rome ; Architecture in northern Greece ; Mosaics ; Portraiture ; Decennalia relief -- Constantine AD 307-337 and the aftermath. Late antique art ; Imperial monuments. The Arch of Constantine ; The base of the Obelisk of Theodosius) ; Portraits ; Architecture ; A domestic quarter and its paintings ; Sarcophagi ; Silver ; Conclusion. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 294-296) and index. |
| Subject |
Art, Roman.
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| Added Author |
Ramage, Andrew, 1939-
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| ISBN |
0137829477 |
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