The Art of Ancient Rome
DU1741,Autumn Semester 2019
V. The Gods in the City, the Household, and theAfterlife
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Online collection
Kunsthistorisches Museum,Wien
Ephesus-Museum,Wien
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before the 5th of November 2019
Sculpture of Jupiter Tonans (Thundering Jupiter/Jove), reflection of
the statue venerated in theTemple of JupiterTonans, vowed in 26 BC
byAugustus, 1st centuryAD copy / Madrid, Museo del Prado
Jupiter/Zeus of
Otricoli, roman copy of
an original from the 4th
century BC (?) /Vatican
Museums, Pio
Clementino, Inv. 257
Sculpture of Serapis, originally from the Serapeum of
Alexandria, copy from a 4th century BC greek original /Vatican
Museums, Museo Pio-Clementino, Inv. 689
Detail of Christ
in the apse, Santa
Pudenziana,
Rome, early 5th
centuryAD
Bronze sculpture of JupiterTonans, 2nd half of the
2nd centuryAD /Vienna, KHM
Bronze sculpture of Jupiter
Dolichenus (syncretic
oriental type from Syria),1st
half of the 3rd centuryAD,
h: 32cm /Vienna, KHM
MajorVestal, 2nd centuryAD, found in the house of
theVestals on the Forum Romanorum / Rome,
Museo Nazionale delleTerme
Lararium (household
shrine) of theVettii,
Pompeii, mid first
century, probably
between 62 and 79 AD
Bronze statuette of a Lar, 1st–2nd
centuryAD / New York, MET
Bronze statuette of a Lar, 1st centuryAD /
Malibu, Getty Museum
Small bronze sculpture of a genius, first half of
the 1st centuryAD, H: c. 30 cm / Madrid
National Archeological Museum of Spain
The « compitalia », festival dedicated to the Lares
Procession relief, former part of the Ara Pacis (?),
early 1st centuryAD / Rome,Villa Medici
The Belvedere Altar, with Augustus
acting as Pontifex Maximus and
attendants receiving the gift of the
lares, c. 12–2 BC / MuseiVaticani,
Museo Gregoriano Profano, inv.
1115
Barberini Ivory, imperial
diptych, first half of the sixth
century, Constantinople (?) /
Paris, Louvre
Columbarium, Ostia
Tomb of the Scipios,
« hypogaeum Scipionum »
In use from c. 3rd century
BC to c. 1st centuryAD
View of a tomb
chamber in the
necropolis of the Isola
Sacra (Ostia),
watercolour
reconstruction
Sarcophagus with the deceased, c. 280AD, from Ostia /Vatican Museums
Amiternum Sarcophagus, c. 50 BC, (from Abruzzi) / Chieti, National Museum
Relief from theTomb of
the Haterii, c. 110–120
AD /Vatican Museums
Sarcophagus of a woman, 2nd centuryAD, from a tomb in
Simpelveld (Netherlands) / Rijksmuseum van Oudheden
Velletri sarcophagus,
c. 140–150 AD
Sarcophagus with the four seasons (Horae) and door to the Underworld, c. 250 AD
Musei Capitolini, Palazzo dei Conservatori, Inv. MC 1185
Sarcophagus with the killing of Niobe’s children byApollo and
Artemis. 2nd centuryAD /Vatican Museums
Sarcophagus with Selene and Endymion,
early 3rd centuryAD / NewYork, MET
Sarcophagus of Jonas, c. 300 /Vatican Museum
Sarcophagus with theTriumph of Bacchus (Dyonisos) and
the Seasons, c. 260–270AD / NewYork, MET