Late Roman Empire
The period and style of art that coincided with the Roman Empire from the reign of Maximinus to the sack of Rome by the Visigoths.
Late Roman Empire
The period and style of art that coincided with the Roman Empire from the reign of Maximinus to the sack of Rome by the Visigoths.
Basics to get you started
Damnatio memoriae—Roman sanctions against memory
Classicism and the Early Middle Ages
Ancient Roman art, an introduction
Rome’s history in four faces at The Met
Classical orders of architecture explained
Contrapposto explained
Women in Roman art
Ancient and Byzantine mosaic materials
Digging through time: Archaeology in Rome
Roman domestic architecture: the insula
Roman domestic architecture: the villa
Rewriting history: damnatio memoriae in ancient Rome
Early Christian art and architecture after Constantine
Works of Art
Artists
Lysippos, Farnese Hercules (also Weary Hercules), 4th century B.C.E., later Roman copy signed "Glykon of Athens" (in Greek letters), c. 216 C.E., 10 feet 5 inches high, found in the ruins of the Baths of Caracalla in Rome in 1546 (Museo Archeologico Nazionale, Naples; photo: Steven Zucker, CC BY-NC-SA 2.0)
