This is an introduction to the Roman Empire with a focus on architecture and art.

1. The Roman Empire
27 BCE-476 CE

3. Augustus
r. 27 BCE-14 CE

4. The Battle of Actium (31 BCE)
Lorenzo A. Castro, 1672

5. Augustus of Primaporta, c. 20 BCE

6. The Pax Romana
27 BCE-180 CE

7. Augustus Has the Doors of the Temple of Janus Closed
Louis de Boullogne the Younger, c. 1681

8. Maecenas Presenting the Liberal Arts to Augustus
Giovanni Battista Tiepolo, 1743

9. Ara Pacis
(The Altar of Peace)
13-9 BCE

12. The Roman Forum
Forum of Augustus Dedicated 2 BCE

15. The Flavian Dynasty
Vespasian, Titus, and Domitian
r. 19-96 CE

16. The Colloseum
Dedicated in 80 CE

20. Trajan
r. 98-117

21. The Column of Trajan
Apollodorus of Damascus,
106-13 CE

24. Roman Soldiers Felling Trees

25. Roman Soldiers Building a Fortress

26. Roman Ships on the Danube

27. Roman Turtle Formation

32. Hadrian
r. 117-38 CE

33. The Pantheon
Apollodorus of Damascus,
118-25 CE

37. Interior of the Pantheon
Giovanni Paolo Panini, c. 1734

38. Marcus Aurelius
r. 161-80

39. Bust of Marcus Aurelius, c. 161-80

40. Equestrian Statue of Marcus Aurelius,
c. 160s-170s CE

42. Caracalla
r. 198-217

43. Head of Caracalla, c. 215 CE

44. Caracalla
Sir Lawrence Alma-Tadema, 1902

45. Geta and Caracalla: Bear Fight in the Colloseum
Sir Lawrence Alma-Tadema, 1907

46. The Baths of Caracalla
212-16 CE

50. Reconstructions

54. The Baths of Caracalla
Sir Lawrence Alma-Tadema, 1899

55. Constantine the Great
r. 306-37

56. The Arch of Constantine, 312-15 CE

57. Head of Constantine, 325-26 CE

58. The Apparition of the Cross to Constantine
Jacopo Vignali, 17th c.

59. Constantine’s Conversion
Peter Paul Rubens, 1622

60. Emperor Constantine Venerates the True Cross
Peter Paul Rubens, 1622

61. Roman Painting

62. First Style
2nd c.-c. 80 BCE

63. Casa di Sallustio, Pompeii, mid-2nd c. BCE

64. Second Style
c. 80s-20s BCE

65. Cubiculum (Bedroom) from the Villa
of P. Fannius Synistor, Boscoreale
Mid-1st c. BCE

72. Third Style
Late 1st c. BCE-mid-1st c. CE

73. House of M. Lucretius Fronto, Pompeii,
mid-1st c. CE

74. Fourth Style
c. 62-c. 79 CE

75. The Ixion Room, House of the Vettii,
Pompeii, 63-79 CE