A history of Roman art

Introduction: Italy before the rise of Rome.

Part I: Monarchy and Republic. From village to world capital

Republican town planning and Pompeii

Republican domestic architecture and mural painting

From Marcellus to Caesar.

Part II: The early empire. The Augustan Principate

Preparing for the afterlife during the early empire

The Pax Augusta in the West

The Julio-Claudian dynasty

Civil war, the Flavians, and Nerva

Pompeii and Herculaneum in the first century CE.

Part III: The high empire. Trajan, optimus princeps

Hadrian the philhellene

The Antonines

Ostia, port and mirror of Rome

Burying the dead during the high empire.

Part IV: The late empire. The Severan dynasty

Lepcis Magna and the eastern provinces

The soldier emperors

The Tetrarchy

Constantine, emperor and Christian patron.