The Oxford History Of The Classical World

Porta Palatina At Turin, one of the monumental gateways of the Augustan colony founded c.25 B.C., and an early instance of brick ...

Composite Capital re-used in the Church of Santa Costanza in Rome. Dated on stylistic grounds to the early Augustan period (C.40 ...

Caryatid Order Of The Forum Of Augustus (end of first century B.C.). The upper storey of the colonnade enclosing the new forum w ...

Painted Wall-Decoration In The Villa Of Agrippa Postumus At Boscotrecase (c. 10 BC). A fine example of the early Third Style: ab ...

in 30 B.C., when the curiosity value of things Egyptian ran high in Italy for a time. Some of the recurrent decorative features ...

The Gemma Augustea, one of the finest examples of the large sardonyx cameos carved with propagandist reliefs by artists of the i ...

Relief From The Ara Pietatis In Rome (dedicated by Claudius in ad43 in belated thanks for the recovery of the Dowager Empress Li ...

Head Of Odysseus From Sperlonga. The hundreds of fragments of baroque sculptural compositions from a grotto identified as that w ...

The transition to the fully developed Fourth Style seems to belong to the 50s; certainly its use on the grand scale is brilliant ...

In the autumn of 69 Vespasian established himself as sole master of the Roman world. A man of plebeian stock, he was a down-to-e ...

Domitian's Palace (the Domus Augustana) in Rome (A.D. 81-92). The palace consisted of three main blocks: at the left the officia ...

Captured Spoils From Jerusalem, relief panel in the passageway of the Arch of Titus (soon after A.D. 81). The two reliefs in the ...

Trajan Addressing His Troops (adlocvtio). This relief from Trajan's column (dedicated in A.D. 113) demonstrates the concern of t ...

line. By contrast the friezes on a contemporary monument (the rebuilt temple in the Forum of Caesar) favour instead an ornate, h ...

portico and gable was very much run-of-the-mill for the temples of its time, and the radical conjunction of a rectangular porch ...

Domed Hall In The Gardens Of Sallust. Rome (engraving by Piranesi): a fine example of the ambitious vaulting techniques explored ...

Augustus' day, and evidence of their work can be detected in the embellishment of all the major projects associated with Hadrian ...

generally retained its conservative, late-Hellenistic flavour during the first century, sparks of originality were also there: t ...

Fountain-Building At Miletus (beginning of second century A.D.). The reconstruction reveals a number of features characteristic ...

Painted Marine Decoration from one of a pair of rooms excavated in the vicinity of the docks on the Tiber in Rome (c. A.D. 131). ...