Gardners Art through the Ages A Global History

Sculpture Nearly all the builders of Republican temples and sanctuaries were men from old and distinguished families. Often they ...

H istorians and art historians alike tend to focus on the lives and monuments of famous individuals, but some of the most inter- ...

JULIUS CAESARBeginning early in the first century BCE, the Roman desire to vaunt distinguished ancestry led to the placement of ...

FORUMThe center of civic life in any Roman town was its forum, or public square, usually located at the city’s geographic center ...

running all the way through the mountain of earth form the tunnels leading to the arena,the central area where bloody gladiatori ...

T he Roman house was more than just a place to live. It played an important role in Roman societal rituals. In the Roman world, ...

FIRST STYLEThe First Style is also called the Masonry Style because the decorator’s aim was to imitate costly marble panels us- ...

10-18Dionysiac mystery frieze, Second Style wall paintings in room 5 of the Villa of the Mysteries, Pompeii, Italy, ca. 60–50 bc ...

peristyle framing a tholos temple (FIG. 10-19,right). Linear per- spective was a favored tool of Second Style painters seeking t ...

THIRD STYLEThe Primaporta gardenscape is the polar oppo- site of First Style designs, which reinforce, rather than deny, the hea ...

IXION ROOM In the latest Fourth Style designs, Pompeian painters rejected the quiet elegance of the Third Style and early Fourth ...

the mural painting (FIG. 10-14) of the brawl in the amphitheater of Pompeii. Given the Roman custom of keeping imaginesof illust ...

Early Empire The murder of Julius Caesar on the Ides of March, 44 BCE,plunged the Roman world into a bloody civil war. The fight ...

deeds reminded people everywhere of the source of this beneficence. These portraits and reliefs often presented a picture of the ...

rides a bird, the other a sea creature. Earth, sky, and water are all ele- ments of this picture of peace and fertility in the A ...

portrayed are children, who restlessly tug on their elders’ garments and talk to one another when they should be quiet on a sole ...

Nemausus) in southern France (ancient Gaul). This exceptionally well preserved Corinthian pseudoperipteral temple, which dates t ...

After the great fire, Nero asked Severusand Celer,two brilliant architect-engineers, to construct a grand new palace for him on ...

R omans flocked to amphitheaters all over the Empire to see two main kinds of spectacles: gladiatorial combats and animal hunts. ...

hold more than 50,000 spectators—but from its location beside the Colossus of Nero (FIG. 10-2,no. 16), the huge statue at the en ...