Importance of Artworks

Augustus from Prima Porta

Contrapposto and adlocutio

Apoxyomenos

Spatial innovation and strigil

Laocoon

Hellenistic pathos and serpents

Belvedere Torso

Heroic muscular model

Porphyry Basin

Nero’s Domus Aurea

Domus Aurea

Private luxury and Octagonal Hall

Colosseum

Anti-Neronian public propaganda

Arch of Titus

Jerusalem spoils and menorah

Pantheon

Dome, oculus, and Augustan memory

Temple of Venus and Rome

Largest Roman temple

Hadrian’s Villa

Empire as curated landscape

Hadrianic Portrait

Beard and carved pupils

Marcus Aurelius

Equestrian statue and Stoic philosophy

Commodus as Hercules

Divine attributes and leonte

Severan Tondo

Family propaganda and Geta’s erasure

Arch of Septimius Severus

Parthian victory

Arch of Argentarii

Private guild sacrifice scenes

Arch of Constantine

Patchwork of reused spolia

Colossal Portrait

Iconic authority and large eyes

Battle of Milvian Bridge

Victory over Maxentius