Table of Contents

Part 1 The beginnings. Part 2 The mid and late republic: early coinage; early terracottas and bronzes; the influence of Greek art; Roman art in the second and early first centuries BC; early portraits and reliefs. Part 3 Decorative arts, artists and patrons in the late republic: interior decoration; Greek artists and Roman patrons; republican wall painting. Part 4 The transition to the empire and Augustus (31 BC - AD 14): art and the dynasts; late republican relief sculpture; the ara pacis Augustae; Augustan portraiture; other works of Augustan commemorative art; Augustan metalwork, gems, painting and mosaics. Part 5 The Julio-Claudians (AD 14-68): relief sculpture; portraiture; provincial art; Sperlonga and villa decoration; the golden house of Nero; funerary art. Part 6 The Flavians (AD 69-98): relief sculpture; interior decoration and portraiture; funerary art. Part 6 Trajan (AD 98-117): Trajan's forum, column and "Great Frieze"; the arch at Benevento and other public monuments; portraiture; art in the provinces; sarcophagi. Part 8 Hadrian (AD 117-38): portraiture and imperial taste; relief sculpture; interior decoration; sarcophagi. Part 9 The Antonines (AD 138-92): the base of Antoninus Pius' column; sarcophagi; portraiture; Aurelian relief panels; sarcophagi; the column of Marcus Aurelius; portraiture; art in the provinces. Part 10 The Severans (AD 193-235): relief sculpture in Rome and North Africa; portraiture; sarcophagi; interior decoration; early Christian painting; mosaics in Italy and the provinces; art in the provinces; art at Dura Europos. Part 11 The 3rd century (AD 238-84): portraiture; villa decoration; coin types; the classical tradition; sarcophagi; Christian and Jewish art. Part 12 The Tetrarchs (AD 293-311): the imperial image; public monuments; art in the provinces; Piazza Armerina; porphyry sculpture; S. Costanza. Part 13 Constantine the Great (AD 311-37): the arch of Constantine; the imperial image; painting and mosaics; Christian sarcophagi; catacomb painting; Constantinople. Part 14 The 4th century after Constantine the Great: classicism; luxury crafts; imperial portraiture; Christian sarcophagi; New Rome; private portraiture; mosaics.