Roman Empire art

art made in antiquity in the territories of Rome during the kingdom, republic, or empire

thumb|300px|right|The Pinacoteca di Brera in [[Milan.]] A pinacotheca (Latin borrowing from = + ) was a picture gallery in either ancient Greece or ancient Rome. The name is specifically used for the building containing pictures which formed the left wing of the Propylaea on the Acropolis at Athens, Greece. Though Pausanias speaks of the pictures "which time had not effaced", which seems to point to fresco painting, the fact that there is no trace of preparation for stucco on the walls implies that the paintings were easel pictures. The Romans adopted the term for the room in a private house c

ancient Greco-Roman drinking cup

graffiti

an ancient synagogue uncovered at Dura-Europos, Syria, in 1932. The last phase of construction was dated by an Aramaic inscription to 244 AD, making it one of the oldest synagogues in the world

structure located in block M8 at Dura-Europos (Syria), converted from house to Christian worship space

portrait fresco, Pompeii

Ancient Roman sculpted tablet showing the mysteries of the Egyptian goddess Isis, 30 BCE – 395 CE, in the collection of Museo Egizio, Turin, Italy

Roman mosaic in Pompeii, Italy

Iron Age grave goods found in Denmark

ancient Roman silver plate

Gorgasus (in Greek: Γόργασος) was a renowned ancient Greek painter who, along with the equally renowned Damophilus, was responsible for the decoration of the temple of the goddess Ceres (identified with the Greek Demeter) on the Aventine Hill in Rome, which faced the Great Hippodrome. The precise date of their work is uncertain. If the Damophilus mentioned is the same Damophilus from Himera in Sicily, who taught the well-known sculptor Zeuxis, their artwork might actually be from much later than when the temple was built in 496 BC, around 40 years later.

ancient Greek painter and coroplast

fresco

Qirqbize ((Arabic قرقبيزه) also Kirkbize or Kirkbizeh) was an early Byzantine settlement in northwest Syria. The ruins are important for the history of early Christianity, as the remains of the earliest preserved house church after Dura-Europos from the beginning of the 4th century are located here. The place was inhabited from the Roman period until at least the 7th century. Howard Crosby Butler investigated the site in 1899, George Tchalenko conducted excavations in 1939 and until 1971.

Roman Mosaic from I-II centuries