Ancient Roman Art
Last updated February 2009
ANCIENT ART: General
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- Roman Art in the Ancient World: Special Topics (through the Metropolitan Museum of Art's Heilbrunn Timeline of Art History)
- Classical Art & Architecture (through Michael Greenhalgh's ArtServe at The Australian National University)
- Mediterranean architecture (largely classical) (through Michael Greenhalgh's ArtServe at The Australian National University
- Virtual Sculpture Gallery of Selected Roman Sculpture (with painted comparisons), with links to:
- Cleopatra: A Multimedia Guide to the Ancient World: Egypt, Greece, and Italy (The Art Institute of Chicago), with a Timeline, Glossary, and Maps
- Classical Art & Architecture (through Michael Greenhalgh's ArtServe at the Australian National University)
- Forum Antiquum: Ancient World Internet Resources (Eric Kondratieff), with a link to:
- The Barrington Atlas of the Greek and Roman World
- Ancient Greek and Roman Coins (Doug Smith)
- Ancient Art (at The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, Missouri)
- Ancient Art , with 8 pages of objects in the Collection of The Minneapolis Institute of Arts
- Classical Art, Ancient Greek and Roman Art (at the Michael C. Carlos Museum, Emory University)
- Greek, Etruscan, and Roman Antiquities (275 selected works) in the collection of the Musée du Louvre, Paris
- Greek and Roman Art in the collection of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
- Greco-Roman Antiquities in the Collection of the Museum of Antiquities, University of Saskatchewan, Canada
- Ancient Art in the collection of the Allen Memorial Art Museum, Oberlin, Ohio
- Antique Jewellery Art in the The State Hermitage Museum, St. Petersburg, Russia
- Alexandria: The Pharos Lighthouse
(part of Underwater Archaeology)
- Lantern Slides of Classical Antiquity grouped by country, city and/or site, building and more detailed location (Center for the Study of Architecture [CSA] and Bryn Mawr College)
- Ancient Mediterranean Culture (through Images from History), with links to:
- Pre-imperial regional cultures of the Mediterranean
- The Early Roman Empire (1st to mid 3rd century A.D.)
- The Late Roman Empire (mid 3rd to 7th century A.D.)
- The Ecclesiastical Synthesis
- The Theodosian Style
- Minor arts
- Late Roman provincial art in the Western Mediterranean
- Late Roman provincial art in the Eastern Mediterranean
- European Bronze Age (in The George Ortiz Collection)
ETRUSCAN
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- Etruscan Art (through ArtLex)
- Etruscan Art (Dr. Rozmeri Basic, University of Oklahoma), with links to
- Etruscan Art (through AICT: Art Images for College Teaching)
- Etruscan Art (9th - 1st Centuries BC) in the collection of the Musée du Louvre, Paris
- Etruscan Art (in The George Ortiz Collection)
- The Mysterious
Etruscans (Jim Penny), with links to
- Ancient Italy in the The State Hermitage Museum, St. Petersburg, Russia, with links to
- Etruscan Guarnacci Museum, Volterra (through Volterra Virtual Guide)
- Etruscan Bologna (through the The Archaeological Museum, Bologna, Italy)
- Etruscan Art in the Gregorian Etruscan Museum (through The Holy See, The Vatican)
- Etruscan Art in Part I and Part II of the Etruscan Museum (Museo Gregoriano) at the Vatican (through Christus Rex), with links to (large) images
- Gold fibula, circa 670-650 B.C.
- Gilded silver bowl, from the Regolini-Galassi tomb at Cerveteri, mid-7th century B.C.
- Pair of gold arm bands, from the Regolini-Galassi tomb at Cerveteri, mid-7th century B.C.
- Statue of Mars of Todi, bronze, 4th century B.C.
- Votive bust of a woman, Cerveteri, terracotta, first half of the third century B.C.
- Vase with figures, Cerveteri (necropolis of Sorbo, Calabresi tomb), late 7th century B.C.
- Disk with a lion's head, Tarquinia (necropolis of Monte Quaglieri), late 6th century B.C.
- Disk with the head of Acheloos, Tarquinia (necropolis of Monte Quaglieri), early 5th century B.C.
- A Winged horse revetment, Cerveteri, early 5th century B.C.
- Votive statue of a man, terracotta, Cerveteri, 2nd century B.C.
- Head of horse, Vulci, late 4th century B.C.
- Votive head of a man, terracotta, Cerveteri,4th century B.C.
- Votive head of a man, terracotta, Cerveteri, second half of the 4th century B.C.
- Votive statue of a child, bronze, Tarquinia, first half of the 3rd century B.C.
- Hellenistic head of a man, Vulci, mid-2nd century B.C.
ANCIENT ROME
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- Lacus Curtius: Into the Roman World (Bill Thayer), with a Gazeteer of the Roman World
- ArchArt, art and archaeology photographs and images - mostly Roman (Giovanni Lattanzi) with a Main Index
- Roman Art (through ArtLex)
- Roman Art in the collection of the Musée du Louvre, Paris
- Roman Art in the Gregorian Egyptian Museum and Gregorian Etruscan Museum (through The Holy See, The Vatican)
- Ancient Rome in the The State Hermitage Museum, St. Petersburg, Russia
- Roman Art (in The George Ortiz Collection)
- Roman Art (through the Digital Imaging Project, Mary Ann Sullivan, Bluffton College)
- Roman Baths, Bath, England [8 images]
- Roman Villa and mosaics, Piazza Armerina, Sicily [3 pages, 31 images]
- Arch of Titus, Rome [11 images]
- Base of the Column of Antoninus Pius -- relief details, Rome [10 images]
- Baths of Caracalla, Rome [10 images]
- Colossal Head of Constantine, Rome [4 images]
- Colosseum - exterior, Rome [8 images]
- Colosseum - interior, Rome [12 images]
- Markets of Trajan (Apollodorus of Damascus), Rome [5 images]
- Mausoleum of Augustus, Rome [4 images]
- Mausoleum of Hadrian (Castel Sant'Angelo), Rome [5 images]
- Pantheon, Rome [6 images]
- Temple of Fortuna Virilis (or Temple of Portunus), Rome [3 images]
- Temple of Vesta, Rome [4 images]
- Theater of Marcellus, Rome [3 images]
- Roman walls, Barcelona, Spain [3 images]
- Aqueduct, Segovia, Spain [9 images]
- Tetrarchs, Venice [3 images]
- Rome (part of the site Periods in Art History, Anne S. de Luengas, ITESM Campus Tampico)
- Roman Art (through AICT: Art Images for College Teaching)
- Architecture of the Republic & Early Empire, plus pages 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8
- Architecture of the Later Empire, plus pages 2, 3
- Figure Sculpture, plus page 2
- Roman Mural Painting & Decor
- Roman Architecture (through Jeffery Howe's Digital Archive of European Architecture, Boston College)
- Roman Architecture (part of a History of Western Architecture, through the Leo Masuda Architectonic Research Office), with links to
- Roman Architecture (part of 40 Centuries of Architecture, through Thais)
- Ancient & Classical Architecture (through Howard Partridge's Cupola)
- The Pantheon: The Triumph of Roman Concrete (Articles and Research by David Moore, P.E.)
- Roman Artifacts from the David M. Robinson Collection (The University Museums, University of Mississippi)
- The Encyclopedia Romana (James Grout)
- Maecenas: Images of Ancient Greece and Rome (many photographs by Leo C. Curran)
- Augustus: Images of Power (Mark Morford, Classics Department, University of Virginia)
- The Tom and Nan Riley Collection of Roman Portrait Sculptures (at the Cedar Rapids Museum of Art, Iowa)
- Roman Portraits from Egypt (through the Jacques-Edouard Berger Foundation's World Art Treasures)
- Antique Portraits (through Michael Greenhalgh's ArtServe at The Australian National University)
- Nereids in Roman Mosaics (Laure Olive-Humbel) in French
- Glassmaking in Roman Times (through the University of Pennsylvania Museum)
- Vitrum: Glass between Art and Science in the Roman World (exhibition at the Institute and Museum of the History of Science, Florence)
- The Roman Site of Karanis, Egypt at the Kelsey Museum of Archaeology, University of Michigan
- Petra, archaeological excavations of the Great Temple (Professor Martha Sharp Joukowsky, Brown University)
- Trajan's Glorious Forum (abstract of an article in Archaeology by James E. Packer)
- Photographs of Rome (mostly ancient)
- Photo Archive, with Site Highlights including
- A Visual Compendium of Roman Emperors (Justin Paola)
- Forum Romanum (David Camden)
- Roman-Open Air Museum Hechingen-Stein, A Roman Villa dating from the 1st to the 3rd Century A.D.
- Pompeii Forum Project (University of Virginia)
- Pompeii Forum Project (new home page)
- Images of Pompeii (through Michael Greenhalgh's ArtServe at The Australian National University)
- Map of Pompeii, with links to
- Pompeii (through Klassische Sprachen)
- Diocletian's Palace
- Excavation, survey and three-dimensional reconstruction of a late Roman basilica in Cilicia (Southern Turkey) (Richard Bayliss, Department of Archaeology, University of Newcastle upon Tyne)
- The Roman Baths and Pump Room, Bath
- Romans in the Ancient History section of the BBC's History site
- Ancient Vienne (through Grand sites archéologique produced by the French Ministère de la culture et de la communication)
- Baalbec (prints) (through Michael Greenhalgh's ArtServe at The Australian National University)
- Desgodetz (through Michael Greenhalgh's ArtServe at The Australian National University)
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