The Art of Ancient Rome
DU1741, Autumn Semester
I.What is Roman Art? Some historiographical premises
Johann Joachim Winckelmann (1717–1768)
(portrait by Anton Raphael Mengs, oil, 1758 /
Metropolitan Museum, New York)
Resting Hermes, from the Villa of Papyri,
Herculaneum, 1st century B.C., copy of a Greek
original of the 4th century B.C., Museo Archeologico
Nazionale, Naples
Apollo Belvedere, first
third of the second
centuryAD, marble,
MuseiVaticani, Museo
Pio Clementino
ColonnaVenus,
second centuryAD,
marble, Musei
Vaticani, Museo Pio
Clementino,
Farnese Hercules, early third
century AD, from the Baths of
Caracalla, Museo Archeologico
Nazionale, Naples
Farnese Bull, punishment of Dirce,
early third centuryAD, marble,
from the Baths of Caracalla, Museo
Archeologico Nazionale, Naples
Robert van Audenaert, The Farnese Bull, engraving in
Raccolta Di Statue Antiche E Moderne, Roma: [1704] [i.e.
1740?]
Marcantonio Raimondi, Apollo
Belvedere, c. 1510–1527,
Metropolitan Museum, NewYork
Reliefs from the Altar of “Domitius Ahenobarbus”, set up c. 120–100 B.C.
on the Campus Martius, Munich, Glypothek and Musée du Louvre, Paris
Domus Aurea, 1st century AD (after 64AD), RomeDomusTransitoria, 37–68AD, Rome
Giovanni da Udine (1487–1564), from
the Vite of GiorgioVasari
“grottesche”, “all’antica”
Studio of Raphael, Loggetta of cardinal Bibbiena,
PalazzoApostolico,Vatican, c. 1550
House of he Vettii, excavated 1894 Villa of the Mysteries, excavated 1909
Casa della Farnesina, cubiculum B, 30-20
B.C., Museo Nazionale Romano, Rome
Discovered/excavated in the 1880s
Ranuccio Bianchi Bandinelli (1900–1975)
1969 1970 1973
“Patrician” / “Plebeian” art
Cinerary urn, end of the 2nd, early 1st century
B.C., alabaster, production of Volterra, Museo
Gregoriano Etrusco, Vatican
Cinerary urn ofThanaVipinei Ranazunia, 2nd century
B.C., terracotta, Metropolitan Museum, NewYork
Head of Augustus, Italy (?), after 27 BCE Marble, Height 41 cm,
Property of Städelscher Museums-Verein e.V.
Head of Theodosius II (?), Valentinian III (?), second quarter of the
5th century CE (ca. 425–450 CE) / Musée du Louvre, Paris
Egyptian relief at Dendera depicting EmperorTrajan (right,
reigned 98–117 AD) in full pharaonic garb, sacrificing to
Hathor and her son Ihy
Warrior of Vachères,
second half of the 1st
century BCE, limestone
Musée Calvet, Avignon
Funerary relief ca. 125–150 AD /
Metropolitan Museum, New York
Funerary relief of a merchant, 2nd century
AD / Copenhagen, Ny Carlsberg Glyptothek