The document summarizes key artworks from ancient Rome including: - The Ara Pacis altar which depicted actual individuals and combined portraiture and allegory. - The Pantheon with its dome structure and oculus that gives a sense of rising up. - The Colosseum which could hold 55,000 spectators and used different architectural orders on each level. - Trajan's Column with its continuous narrative of Trajan's Dacian campaign shown through small figures.