Portraiture of Roman EmperorsRepublic- 509-27 BCE

Idealized heroes and athletes’ bodiesHeads were veristic likenessHead and body were an integral wholeMature menElevated the person to heroic status

Portrait Bust of Julius Caesar, from Tusculum, Mid 1st

Century, BCE

Portrait of a Roman General from the sanctuary of Hercules, Tivoli, Italy, c 75-50 BCE

Private portraits;

Mythological themes;

Imperial iconography

Portrait of a Young FlavianLady, c. 90 CE

Augustus as General from Primaporta,c. 20 CE,

commissioned by Tiberius

Augustus of Primaporta: detail showing

cuirass reliefs, ca. 20 B.C.E.

Augustus as General from Primaporta,c. 20 CE,

Polykleitos,Doryphorus, Spear Bearer,450 BCE

Write an Essay Explaining howthe Roman sculptor used Polykleitos’ canon , while sculpting Augustus as General

Funerary reliefs of workers’ tombs, 100 CE

High Empire 96 -192 BCESupreme confidence changed to weariness, sadness and worry.Portraits ended the Classical art’s domination of revealing superiority and captured the emperor’s personality.

Portrait bust of

Hadrian as general,

from Tel Shalem,

Israel,

c. 130-138 CE

Marcus Aurelius, Equestrian Statue, from Rome, Italy, c. 175 CE

Painted Portrait of Septimius Severus and his family, from Egypt,c. 200 CE

Portrait of Caracalla, r. 211-217

Monumental Head of Constantine, from the Basilica of Constantine, Rome, 313.

Constantine, head and fragments from a colossal statue Rome,

ca. 313-315 (or 330) C.E.

The Tetrarchs:

ca. 305 C.E.