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Title: Ancient Greece
Place: Greece
Period: Hellenistic
Date: ?
Greek culture included mainland Greece Peloponnese, Macedonia, Aegean Island, western coast of asia minor, colonies in Italy, Sicily and Asia Minor. Powerful independent commercial or cultural centers. |
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Title: Funerary Vase
Place: Greek
Period: Geometric
Date: 750 BCE
Humans beings depicted as in a narrative. Pot is a grave marker and provides details of funerary rituals: Cremation for an important man. Mourners tearing hair out with grief. Geometric figures. |
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Title: Man and Centaur
Place: Greece
Period: Geometric
Date: 750 BCE
During this era the creation of many small bronze figures. Man has stabbed the centaurs (defeat of chaos or uncontrol). Found in sanctuaries perhaps used as offerings to the gods. |
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Title: Model of a Temple
Place: Greece
Period: Geometric
Date: 8th C BCE
Greeks worshipped at outdoor altars with walled sanctuaries. Temples sheltered an image to the gods. Not made of lasting materials. Clay models have survived. Similar to Mycenean Megaron (palace): main room (temple), small reception area, and the temple's vestibule. |
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Title: Corner View of the Temple of Hera I
Place: Italy
Period: Archaic
Date: 550 BCE
Doric Order: columns, thicker on bottom, thinner on top, plain flat band on top holding up structure.
Post and Lintel Structure.
Growth of temples in size and complexity. |
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Title: Reconstruction drawing of the west pediment of the temple of Artemis
Place: Greece
Period: Archaic
Date: 600-580 BCE
Greek temple grew larger and even more complex, the addition of sculptural decoration increased in importance. Images carved on a separate slab and installed in the pediment space. Pediment: triangular space above the entrance of a temple where relief sculptures are placed. Medusa: power to turn humans into stone, protecting the temple. |
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Title: Anavysos Kouros
Place: Greece
Period: Archaic
Date: 525 BCE
Increasing interest in the anatomy. Suggests heroic strengths: massive torso and limbs, archaic smile and wiglike hair. A grave monument to a fallen warrior. "Stop and grieve at the tomb of the brave warrior Kroisos, slain by the wild god ares in front rank of battle." Meant to encourage similar noble actions and heroic character in the viewer. |
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Title: The suicide of Ajax
Place: Greek
Period: Archaic
Date: 540 BCE
Artist: Exekias
Recounts Trojan War. Ajax mighty warrior and cousin of Achilles is dishonored when he is not given the dead Achille's armor, rather Odysseus is bestowed the honor. Shamed, he commits suicide. Portrays Ajax preparing for his suicide. |
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Title: Death of Sarpedon
Place: Greek
Period: Archaic
Date: 515 BCE
Artist: Euphronios (painter) and Euxitheos (potter)
Red figure technique. Homer's Iliad: Sarpedon, a son of Zeus, was killed by the warrior Patroclus while fighting the Trojans. Hypnos (sleep) and Thanatos (death) carrying the dead warrior. Hermes watching over the body to escort it to the underworld. |
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Title: Kritian Boy
Place: Greek
Period: Earlier Classical
Date: 480 BCE
Youthful athlete, new pose, less rigid stance, weight shifted on one leg. Solemn expression lacks archaic smile. Transition b/w Archaic and Future in Greek Art. |
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Title: Warrior A
Place: Greek
Period: Early Classical
Date: 460-450 BCE
Bronze usually melted down in the past to create weapons or used to create new sculptures. Warrior A discovered in the ocean. Balance b/w idealized anatomy forms and naturalistic details. Eyeballs made of bone and colored glass, eyelashes and Eyebrows cast separately, lips and nipple made with pinkish copper, silver teeth, use to hold a spear and shield in either hand. Possibly commemorating a military victory. |
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Title: Model of the Acropolis
Place: Greek
Period: Classical
Date: 400 BCE
Persian troops destroyed the Acropolis which led Pericles to rebuilt the acropolis to honor the gods. Worked cont. after Pericles' death. Completed at the end of the 5th C. Religious building and votive statues filled the hilltop. Pantheon: largest building, dedicated to Athena. |
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Title: Lapith Fighting a Centaur
Place: Greek
Period: Classical
Date: 440s BCE
Parthenon: south side, depiction of the battle b/w Lapiths and Centaurs. Symbolism of triumph of reason over animal passion. |
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Title: Horsemen
Place: Greek
Period: Classical
Date: 438-432 BCE
Major ceremony, represent ideal inhabitants of the city-state. Message: Athenians are healthy, vigorous people, enjoying individual rights but united in a democratic body, favored by the gods. People inseperable from the city and were also symbolic of the city. |
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Title: Marshals and Young Women
Place: Greek
Period: Classical
Date: 438-432 BCE
Major ceremony, represent ideal inhabitants of the city-state. Message: Athenians are healthy, vigorous people, enjoying individual rights but united in a democratic body, favored by the gods. People inseperable from the city and were also symbolic of the city. |
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Title: Porch of the Maidens
Place: Greek
Period: Classical
Date: 421-405 BCE
South side of acropolis facing the parthenon. 6 female figures used as columns, support weight on one leg while the other is bent at the knee. Hair around the neck to support the weak area. |
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Title: Nike adjusting her sandal
Place: Greek
Period: Classical
Date: 425 BCE
Temple of Athena on the Acropolis. Temple with porch at each end. Delicate and light material clinging to the body. |
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Title: Hermes and the Infant Dionysus
Place: Greek
Period: Classical
Date: 4th C
Artist: Praxiteles
Humanizes treatment of the subject. two gods caught in absorbed companionship, gestures, glances- very different from the stiff sculptures in earlier period. |
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Name: Aphrodite of Knidos
Place: Greek
Period: Classical
Date:350 BCE
Artist: Praxiteles
First statue depicting a nude female/ god. Nudity=sign of low character. Led to eventual female nudes in sanctuaries. Enchanting beauty used as a public model of high moral value. |
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Name: Alexander the Great
Place: Greek
Period:Classical
Date: 4th C
ONce apart of a free standing figure. Treatment of hair meant to associate Alexander with Hercules: Killing a lion for his labors. Heracles strength earned him mortality II to Alexander. Eyes show focus and meditation. Wrinkled forehead: contemplating decisions, waiting to receive divine advice. |
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Name: Alexander the Great confronts Darius III at the Battle of Issos
Place: Greek
Period: Classical
Date:310 BCE
Romans admired Greek murals and commissioned replicas of wall paintings and mosaics to decorate homes. Alexander challenging Persian leader. |
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Name: Reconstructed west front of the altar from pergamon
Place: Greek
Period: Hellenistic
Date:166-156 BC |
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Name: Athene Attacking the giants
Place: Greek
Period: Hellenistic
Date:166-156 |
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Name: Nike of Samothrace
Place: Greek
Period: Hellenistic
Date: 190 BCE |
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Name: Aphrodite of Melos
Place: Greek
Period: Hellenistic
Date:150 BCE |
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Name: Spear Bearer
Place: Greek
Period: Classical
Date:450-440 BCE
Artist: Polykleitos |
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Name:Parthenon
Place: Greek
Period: Classical
Date:447-438 BCE
Arist: Kallikrates and Iktinos
Name:The Parthenon when it contained a mosque
Place: Greek
Period: Classical
Date: 1765
Artist: William Pars
Name:The second bank of the United States
Place: America
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Name: Equestrian statue of Marcus Aurelius
Place: Roman
Period: Imperial
Date: 176 BCE |
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Name: Peristyle garden
Place: Roman
Period: Imperial
Date: mid 1st C |
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Name:Reconstructed Bedroom
Place: Roman
Period: Imperial
Date:1st C |
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Name:Cityscape
Place: Roman
Period: Imperial
Date:Late 1st C |
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Name:Garden Scene
Place: Roman
Period: Augustan
Date:Late 1st C BCE |
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Name:Initiation rites of the cult of Bacchus
Place: Roman
Period: Augustan
Date:50 BCE |
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Name: Caracalla
Place: Roman
Period: Late Empire
Date: Early 3rd C CE |
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Name:Bath of Caracalla
Place: Roman
Period: Late Empire
Date: 211-17 CE |
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Name:Plan of Caracalla bath
Place: Roman
Period: Late Empire
Date:211-17 CE |
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Name:The Tetrarchs
Place: Roman
Period: Late Empire
Date:300 CE |
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Name:Arch of Constantine
Place: Roman
Period: Late Empire
Date:312-15 CE |
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Name:Basilica of Maxentuis and Constantine
Place: Roman
Period: Late Empire
Date:306-313 BCE |
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Name:Plan of Basilica of Maxentius and Constantine
Place: Roman
Period: Late Empire
Date:300 CE |
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Name:Constantine the Great
Place: Roman
Period: Late Empire
Date:325-326 |
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Name:Good Shepherd and Story of Jonah
Place: Rome
Period: Early Christian
Date:4th C CE |
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Name: Reconstruction drawing of old st. Peter's basilica
Place: Rome
Period: Early Christian
Date:320-27 BCE |
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Name:Plan and section of the church of Santa Costanza
Place: Rome
Period: Early Christian
Date:350 CE |
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Name: Santa Costanza
Place: Rome
Period: Early Christian
Date:350 CE |
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Name:Harvesting of Grapes
Place: Rome
Period: Early Christian
Date:350 CE |
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Name: Mausoleum of Galla Placidia
Place: Italy
Period: early Christian
Date:425 CE |
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Name:Mausoleum of Galla Placidia
Place: Italy
Period: Early Christian
Date: 425CE |
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Name:Good Shepherd
Place: Italy
Period: Early Christian
Date:425 CE |
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Name:Sarcophagus of Junius Bassus
Place: Rome
Period: Early Byzantine
Date: 360CE |
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Name:Church of Hagian Sophia
Place: Turkey
Period: Early Byzantine
Date:530 BCE |
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Name:Plan and section of the church of hagia sophia
Place: Turkey
Period: Early Byzantine
Date:530CE |
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Name:Church of Hagia Sophia
Place: Turkey
Period: Early Byzantine
Date:530 CE |
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Name:Plan and cutaway drawing of the church of San Vitale
Place: Italy
Period: Early Byzantine
Date:530 CE |
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Name: Church of San Vitale
Place: Italy
Period: Early Byzantine
Date:530CE |
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Name:Church of San Vitale
Place: Italy
Period: Early Byzantine
Date:530 CE |
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Name:Emperor Justinian and his attendants
Place: Italy
Period: Early byzantine
Date: 550 BCE |
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Name:Empress Theodora and her attendants
Place: Italy
Period: Early Byzantine
Date: 550 CE |
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Name:The transfiguration of Christ with St. Apollinaris
Place: Italy
Period: early Byzantine
Date:6th C |
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Name:Virgin of Vladimir
Place: Constantinople
Period: Byzantine
Date: 12th C |
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| An open space in a Greek town used as a central gathering place or market. |
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| A curved structural element that spans an open space. |
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| the oblong wedge-shaped stone blocks used to build an arch. The top most center voussoirs is called a keystone |
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| The top most voussoir at the center of an arch. the last block to be placed. the pressure of this block holds the arch together. |
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| an unroofed interior courtyard or room in a roman house, sometimes having a pool or garden, sometimes surrounded by columns. |
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| in the classical orders, the horizontal elements above the columns and capitals. The entablature consists of, from bottom to top, and architrave, a frieze, and a cornice |
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| covered walkway in ancient Greece |
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| swelling in the middle of the columns, most notably on the Parthenon, so that they appear straight from a viewer's perspective |
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| Predominantly archaic architectural canon, most notably in the columns. Characterized by "pillow-like" simple columns |
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| predominantly classical architectural canon, most notably in the columns. Characterized by scroll-like columns |
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| edominantly hellenistic architectural canon, most loved by the Romans. Characterized by acanthus-leaf capitals. |
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| large, central room of a Greek temple |
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| "fake" column, which was attached to a wall rather than standing freely |
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| elongated archway, forming a tunnel |
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| ntry room of a Roman building, was once a main feature of the building, but was later used only as a meeting room |
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| open marketplace, more structured than the Greek agora |
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| large Christian churches, adopted from the Roman buildings, because they could house many people |
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| ole in the middle of a dome |
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| In a Doric frieze, an upright grooved block with three vertical bars in relief, conventionally thought to represent the translation into stone of carved carpentry prototypes. |
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a standing male nude figure
(E) Female standing draped figure |
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| the triangular space formed by the gable at either end of a Greek temple |
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| a female figure supporting the entablature of a building |
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| the upper, spreading element in a column, forming a transition between the vertical shaft and the horizontal elements of the architrave. |
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| recessed panels in a flat ceiling |
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| the traits in a work of art which express the ideal or typic character -- character as influenced by the ethos (sense 1) of a people -- rather than realistic or emotional situations or individual character in a narrow sense; -- opposed to pathos. |
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| the quality or power in an actual life experience or in literature, music, speech, or other forms of expression, of evoking a feeling of pity or compassion. |
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| decorative horizontal band, as along the upper part of a wall in a room. |
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| A set of standards, in this case art, used by the Egyptians and Greeks concerning style proportions and depiction |
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| a tall cylindrical vertical upright and used to support a structure |
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| the column had a simpler base and was unfluted, while both capital and entablature were without adornments. A plain astragal ringed the column beneath its plain cap. In its simplicity, it is seen as similar to the Doric order, and yet in its overall proportions and intercolumniation, it follows the ratios of the Ionic order. |
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| establish a mechanism whereby the world of movement might be represented in their art. In this way, they provide a way for proportions and patterns to explore the nature of motion. |
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| the notion that the parts of a work will be proportionate to each other. In architecture, symmetria takes account for the relations among ground plans and elevations, and between column diameter and columniation - so that a proportional relation exists between how wide the columns are and the distance between each column. |
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| ornamental and not structural columns |
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| decorative motif consisting of a series of uniform, usually vertical flutes, as those incised in the surface of a column. |
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| technique used in perspective to create the illusion of an object gradually diminishing into the background. |
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| City of the dread. Where the dead are kept |
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| roofed porch supported by columns which is approached by a steps. |
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| extreme naturalism in art |
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| the union (or attempted fusion) of different systems of thought or belief |
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Name: Portrait of Pompay the Great
Place: Roman
Era: Imperial
Date: 30 CE |
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Name: Reconstruction of an Etruscan temple
Place:Etruscan
Period:
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Name:Plan of Etruscan Temple
Place:Etruscan
Period:
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Name: apollo
Place:Etruscan
Period:
Date:500 BCE |
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Name:Sarcophagus
Place:Etruscan
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Date:520 BCE |
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Name: Pont du Guard
Place:Roman
Period:Republic
Date:Late 1st C BCE |
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Name: Model of the Sanctuary of Fortuna Primigenia
Place: Roman
Period:Republic
Date:1000 BCE |
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Name: Temple perhaps dedicated to Portunus
Place:Roman
Period:Republic
Date:late 2nd C BCE |
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Name: Temple perhaps dedicated to Portunas
Place: Roman
Period:Republican
Date:Late 2nd C BCE |
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Name:Augustus of Primaporta
Place:Roman
Period:Imperial
Date:Early 1st C CE |
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Name:Ara Pacis
Place:Roman
Period:Imperial
Date:13-9 BCE |
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Name:Column of Trajan
Place:Roman
Period:Imperial
Date:115 CE |
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Name:Colosseum
Place:Roman
Period:Imperial
Date:80 CE |
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Name:Pantheon
Place:Roman
Period:Imperial
Date:125 CE |
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Name:Pantheon drawing
Place:Roman
Period:Imperial
Date:125CE |
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Name:Pantheon
Place:Roman
Period:Imperial
Date:125 CE |
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Name:Arch of Titus
Place:Roman
Period:Imperial
Date:80 CE |
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Name: Romans Crossing the danube and building a fort (Column of Trajan)
Place: Roman
Period: Imperial
Date: 115 CE |
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Name: Spoils from the temple of Solomon
Place: Roman
Period:Imperial
Date: 80 CE |
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