ARTH 101
Prehistory to Medieval


Roman: Early Empire, 27 BC - AD 96


Augustus as Pontifex Maximus

ca. 20 BC
Rome, Museo Nazionale Romano


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Portrait of a Flavian Lady

ca. AD 90
Rome, Museo Capitaliano


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The Colosseum

ca. AD 72-80
Rome


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Arch of Titus

ca. AD 81
Rome


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Pont du Gard (aqueduct bridge)

Early 1st century AD
Near Nimes, France


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Pompeii, Atrium of the House of the Silver Wedding

Destroyed by Vesuvius in AD 79

 


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Tetrastyle Atrium

 


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Reconstruction drawing:
Tetrastyle Atrium during rain


Reconstruction of an Insula at Ostia

(model by I. Gismondi)


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Plan of a Typical Roman House


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with peristyle added


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