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A HISTORY OF ROMAN ART surveys the art of Rome and its empire from the time of Romulus to the death of Constantine presented in its historical, political and social context. Divided into four parts (Italy before and during the Republic and the Early, High and Late Empires), each of the 21 chapters combines a discussion of general issues and individual monuments with a series of boxed essays on architectural terminology, materials and techniques, religion and mythology, the cultural context of works of art, the role of patrons and the problems that ancient artists and architects faced and how they solved them. Special chapters are devoted to Pompeii and Herculaneum and funerary and provincial art in all media.
Part 1. Italy before and during the Republic. Italy before the rise of Rome -- From village to world capital -- Republican town planning and Pompeii -- Republican domestic architecture and mural painting -- From Marcellus to Caesar -- Part 2. The early empire. The Augustan Principate -- Preparing for the afterlife during the early empire -- The Pax Augusta in the west -- The Julio-Claudian dynasty -- Civil war, the Flavians, and Nerva -- Pompeii and Herculaneum in the First Century CE -- Part 3. The high empire. Trajan, Optimus Princeps -- Hadrian, the Philhellene -- The Antonines -- Ostia, Port, and mirror of Rome -- Burying the dead during the High Empire -- Part 4. The late empire. The Severan Dynasty -- Lepcis Magna and the Eastern Provinces -- The soldier emperors -- The tetrarchy -- Constantine, emperor and Christian patron.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 348-352) and index.