Images & Art

FOLDING STOOL

Detail, Centaur with Apollo and Aesculapius From a wall painting in Pompeii Museo Nazionale, Naples This folding stool, probably in bronze, has thin, curving, unadorned legs. It is based on a Hellenistic model....

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BRONZE TABLE

From the House of Julia Flex Pompeii National Museum Naples The round-top table with three animal legs is a form the Romans adopted from the Greeks. This elaborate example in bronze has clawed feet and animal legs which are connected with fancy scroll braces. Winged sphinxes support the decorated top....

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ARCH OF TITUS

Forum Romanum Rome l The ceiling of the arch is coffered and the famous reliefs of the victory in Jerusalem line the inside of the passages....

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Detail, RELIEFS

Trajan's Column Rome 114 The continuous three and a half foot spiral band of reliefs is more than 600 feet long. Carved on it are over 2,500 figures....

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MARITIME THEATRE

Hadrian's Villa Tivoli 118-125 The Maritime Theatre (Teatro Marittimo) was Hadrian's circular island retreat. It was surrounded by a canal and a colonnaded portico and a high wall screened it off from the rest of the villa. The land was connected to the villa by two drawbridges. In the Theatre full scale miltary battles could be faught as a form o...

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HOUSE OF CUPID AND PSYCHE

Ostia c. 300 A statue of Amour and Psyche in a cubiculum or bedroom with a rich beautiful marble pattern. The house triclinium (dining room) was centrally heated....

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Detail, STRUCTURAL MEMBERS

Festival Hall of Tuthmosis III Dynasty XVIII, 1504-1450 B.C. The festival hall of Tuthmosis III also has light-slits high up in the wall which control and limit the entering light....

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HYPOSTYLE COLONNADE

Temple of Amon, Luxor Dynasty XVIII, c. 1400-1360 B.C. There are seven papyrus-bundle columns fifty-two feet high on each side of the passage....

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AURELIAN WALL

Rome c. 270 A defensive brick wall built around 270 A.D....

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FRIEZE

Temple of Minerva Forum of Nerva Rome c. 100 Roman architectural emphasis is structural. Decorative motifs are largely influenced by the Greeks, but the Romans developed some of their own decorative forms. This frieze depicts stories from the life of Minerva....

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