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Even though this statue is a old person with wrinkled and toothless look, with sagging jowls, this is the face of a roman aristocrat stares at us across the ages, The aesthetic parlance of the Late Roman Republic, this portrait it suppose to represent seriousness of mind (gravitas) and the virtue (Virtus) of a public career by demonstrating the way in which the subject literally wears the marks of his endeavors. -
This is one of Augustus most famous portraits, it is called Augustus of Primaporta of 20 B.C.E. The sculpture has gotten its name from the town in Italy where it was found in 1863. In a glance this portrait looks like if it resembled of Augustus as an orator and general, but this sculpture also communicates a good deal about the emperor's power and ideology. -
This was the area that was a center of a vast palace that Nero built for himself. You now see this massive building, there also was an artificial lake that Nero had here. It was big, heavy and was 100,000 blocks of travertine. Nero was very unpopular, He actually committed suicide in 68 A.D. if he hant done that, he would have been brought back to Rome, tried, and executed. -
This is the Emperor Constantine, which is called Constantine the Great, it was significant for several reasons. Which had also included political transformation of the Roman Empire, his support for Christianity, and his founding of Constantinople (modern day Istanbul) The Constantine's status as an agent of change also extended into the realms of art and architecture. -
When Constantina, the daughter of the Emperor Constantine, she died in Bithynia in 354, her body was buried at an imperial mausoleum on the Via Nomentana. The monumental red porphyry sarcophagus at the Pio Clementino Museum in the Vatican Museums comes from the mausoleum where she was buried on the Via Nomentana, which was later transformed into the Church of Santa Costanza. -
This was a building that was used by the ancient romans for diverse functions including as a site for law courts, it is the category of buildings that had Constantine's architects adapted to serve as the basis for the new churches. The original Constantinian buildings are now known only in plan, but an examination of a still extant early fifth century Roman basilica, the church of a Santa Sabina helps us to understand the essential characteristics of the early Christians basilica.