Ancient Roman Art

Art produced within the Roman world from the later Roman Republic through the Roman Empire, roughly the second century BCE to the fall of the Western Empire in the fifth century CE, encompassing marble and bronze sculpture, wall painting, mosaic, relief carving and minor arts produced across Italy and the provinces. A defining feature of Roman sculpture in particular is the systematic production of marble copies and adaptations of earlier Greek bronze originals, often the only surviving evidence for a lost Greek work, alongside original Roman portraiture, funerary sarcophagi and cult statuary of the Greco-Roman pantheon and syncretic provincial deities. Divinity Atlas artworks placed in this group are objects their holding museum dates and attributes to Roman manufacture, whether an original Roman work or an ancient Roman-era copy after an earlier Greek original, distinguished from the Greek original tradition itself and from the post-antique European revivals of classical myth and form gathered in this atlas's other art-tradition groups.