Ancient Roman Art

Question 1

Answer 1

Temple of Portunus, Rome, ca. 75 BCE.

• Roman Republic, Ancient Rome
• travertine, tufa, concrete

Question 2

Answer 2

Second Style wall-painting from the Villa of P. Fannius Synistor, Boscoreale, Italy, ca. 50-40 BCE.

• Ancient Rome, Early Empire
• fresco

Question 3

Answer 3

Detail of Third Style wall-painting from the Villa of Agrippa Postumus, Boscotrecase, Italy, ca. 10 BCE.

• Ancient Rome, Early Roman Empire
• fresco

Question 4

Answer 4

Portrait of Augustus as a general (the “Primaporta Augustus”), from Primaporta Italy (near Rome), ca. 10 CE.

• Augustus, Ancient Rome, Early Roman Empire
• marble

Question 5

Answer 5

Female personification (probably Earth-goddess Tellus), relief sculpture from the Ara Pacis, Rome, 13-19 BCE.,

• Augustus, Ancient Rome, Early Roman Empire
• marble

Question 6

Answer 6

Decursio relief, relief-sculpture from the pedestal of the Column of Antoninus Pius, Rome, ca. 161 AD.

• Antoninus Pius, Ancient Rome, Roman High Empire
• marble

Question 7

Answer 7

Portraits of the four tetrarchs, from Constantinople (now Istanbul, Turkey), ca. 305 BCE., Porphyry

• Roman Late Empire, Ancient Roman
• porphyry

Question 8

Answer 8

The Pantheon, Rome, 118-125 BCE.

• Hadrian, Ancient Rome, Roman High Empire
• concrete and marble