Imperial Rome

Name - Portrait of Augustus

Date - 20 BCE

Culture - Roman

OG Location - Primaporta, Italy

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Material - Bronze

Other - Contrapposto, idealized, originally painted

Name - Ara Pacis Augustae - Female personification and sacrificial procession

Date - 13-9 BCE

Culture - Roman

OG Location - Rome, Italy

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Other - Alludes to fertility, features processional images imitating those of the Athenian Parthenon and references to Rome's peace and abundance under imperial rule

Name - Domus Aurea of Nero, Room 85 and Room 78

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Culture - Roman

OG Location - Rome, Italy

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Material - Technique by which pigments and plaster unite chemically and the painting becomes a permanent part of the wall, building is a palace originally decorated with gold, precious stones and mother-of-pearl

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Name - Colosseum

Date - 70-80 CE, Flavian Dynasty

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OG Location - Rome, Italy

Function - Arena for entertainment, place for gladiators to fight

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Material - Concrete foundation, travertine piers, concrete vaults

Other - Originally featured roman arches and the three Greek orders of architecture

Name - Arch of Titus, Spoils of Jerusalem

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OG Location - Rome, Italy

Function - Visual propaganda

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Material - Marble

Other - Erected by Domitian- Titus’s brother, includes commemorative reliefs of Roman military campaigns, a scene of the emperor’s apotheosis, or deification, and a barrel vault

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Name - Column of Trajan

Date - 112 CE

Culture - Roman

OG Location - Rome, Italy

Function - Built to commemorate Trajan’s Dacian campaigns

Patron - Trajan

Material - Hollow marble drums

Other - Depicts Trajan addressing his troops, receiving a Dacian embassy, making sacrifices to the gods, setting off on campaign, viewing Dacian prisoners

Name - Pantheon Exterior and Interior

Date - 118-125 CE

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OG Location - Rome, Italy

Function - Believed to be a temple dedicated to all the gods of Rome

Patron - Begun by Trajan

Material - Concrete covered in marble

Other - Design based on the intersection of two circles, has a coffered ceiling

Name - Equestrian Statue of Marcus Aurelius

Date - 175 CE

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OG Location - Rome, Italy

Function - Portrait

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Material - Bronze

Other - Marcus was the last emperor of this dynasty to be adopted by his predecessor, the only over-life-size, gilded bronze imperial portrait that remains intact