ARHI4020/6020 Roman Art and Architecture Dr. Van Keuren

Reading Assignments, Reserve Books and Papers and  Web Sites to be Consulted
http://fvankeur.myweb.uga.edu/ARHI4020Syllabus.html

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Due Dates:

Thursday, September 17:
Paragraph describing the focus of your paper.  Include the bibliography that you have found so far, and I will make further suggestions.  Follow bibliographic format for the American Journal of Archaeology.  Click here for printed sources, and here for electronic ones.

See my Art Resources page.

Thursday, October 15:
Outline of the physical evidence, previous scholarship and main points and conclusions in your argument.  Please include an updated bibliography.

Thursday, November 19:
Final paper is due.

Reading Assignments
Textbook:
Diana E. Kleiner, Roman Sculpture (1992); also available in UGA Bookstore (on reserve, NB115 .K57 1992).

Weeks 1-2:  Republican Sculpture:  Kleiner, Introduction and Chapter 1

Weeks 3-4:  Augustan Sculpture:  Kleiner, Chapter 2
First Midterm: Thursday, September 24 (through the end of Republican period)
Week 5-6: Julio-Claudian Sculpture:  Kleiner, Chapter 3
Weeks 7:  Flavian Sculpture:  Kleiner, Chapter 4

Weeks 8-9:  Trajanic and Hadrianic Sculpture:  Kleiner, Chapter 5

Second Midterm

Weeks 10-11: Antonines:  Kleiner, Chapter 6

Week 12: Severan Sculpture:  Kleiner, Chapter 7

Week 13: Sculpture of the 3rd Century:  Kleiner, Chapter 8

Week 14:  Sculpture from the Tetrarchy:  Kleiner, Chapter 9

Week 15:  Sculpture from the Constantinian Period:  Kleiner, Chapter 10

Final Exam

Tuesday, December 15, 2009, 3:30 to 6:30 PM

Attendance policy: Those with no more than two absences (with attendance taken for every period of class from first meeting after drop-add) will receive 5 points extra credit, to be applied where most needed on one of your test scores. Those with more than four absences will have one point deducted per absence from score of final exam. Legitimate excuses will not be counted against you, but you must document excused absences.
 
 

Biblography of Reserve Books in Main Library
(to be used as starting points for information on paper topics and as sources for further bibliography)

Text

NB115 .K57 1992 Diana E.E. Kleiner, Roman Sculpture (1992)

General Books on Roman Art

DG77 .A57 2005 T. Allan, Life, myth, and art in Ancient Rome (2005)

Folio N5760 .A4813 B. Andreae, The Art of Rome (1977)

N5610 .B295 2001 Mary Beard and John Henderson, Classical art : from Greece to Rome (2001)

N5760 .B40 S. Bertman, Art and the Romans: A Study of Roman Art as a Dynamic Expression of Roman Character (1975)

N5760 .B513 R. Bianchi Bandinelli, Rome: The Center of Power, 500 B.C. to A.D. 200 (1970)

N 5763 .B513 1971 R. Bianchi Bandinelli, Rome: The Late Empire, Roman art, A.D. 200-400 (1971)

Main Reference N5610 .O84 1993 John Boardman, ed., The Oxford history of classical art (1993)

N5760 .B74 R. Brilliant, Roman Art from the Republic to Constantine (1974)

Folio N5763 .A9 2006 Eve D’Ambra, Guy P.R. Métraux, eds., The Art of citizens, soldiers and freedmen in the Roman world (2006)

N5760 .D435 1998 Eve D'Ambra, Roman art (1998)

N5760 .R64 1993 E. D'Ambra, Roman Art in Context: An Anthology (1993)

N5760 .A73 1996 J. Elsner, ed., Art and Text in Roman Culture (1996)

N5760 .G32 2002 A. Gabucci, Roman Art: Art, Architecture and History (2002)

N5760 .G74 1995 M. Grant, Art in the Roman Empire (1995)

N5740 .H238 G. Hanfmann, Roman Art; a modern survey of the art of Imperial Rome (1964)

Folio N5763 .H3513 1988 Niels Hannestad, Roman art and imperial policy (1988)

N5760 .H4313 H. von Heintze, Roman Art (1971)

N5760 .H36 1983 M. Henig, ed., A Handbook of Roman Art: A Comprehensive Survey of All the Arts of the Roman World (1983)

NA5620 .A1 H65 2004, R.R. Holloway, Constantine and Rome (2004)

N5760 .H6413 2004 T. Hölscher, The language of images in Roman art (2004)

N5760 .K313 1965 H. Kähler, The Art of Rome and her Empire (1965)

Folio N5755 .M38 2008 Carol C. Mattusch, Pompeii and the Roman villa : art and culture around the Bay of Naples (2008)

N6912 .L6 1965 H. P. L'Orange, Art Forms and Civic Life in the Late Roman Empire (1965)

N5760 .R36 2001 N.H. and A. Ramage, Roman Art: Romulus to Constantine, 3rd ed. (2001)

PA25 .G7 no. 34 P. Stewart, Roman Art (2004)

N5760 .S67 2008 P. Stewart, The social history of Roman art (2008)

Main Ref N5760 .S68 1988 D. E. Strong, Roman Art (1988)
DG300 .S48 2007 Simon Swain, Stephen Harrison, J. Elsner (eds.), Severan culture (2007)

N5760 .T58 J. M. C. Toynbee, Art of the Romans (1965)

N5763 .U98 2005 Jeannine Diddle Uzzi, Children in the visual arts of imperial Rome (2005)

N5760 .V47 1978 C. Vermeule, Roman Art: Early Republic to Late Empire (1979)


N5851 .V4 C. Vermeule, Roman Imperial Art in Greece and Asia Minor (1968)


N5760 .W28 1991 S. Walker, Roman Art (1991)


N5760 .W564 M. Wheeler, Roman Art and Architecture (1964)

Literary Sources on Roman Art

DG68 .D83 D.R. Dudley, Urbs Roma: A Source Book of Classical Texts on the City and its Monuments (1967). Literary sources on buildings in Rome.

PA3612 .P68 1914 v. 5, v. 7 & vol. 9 Plutarch, Lives vol. 5 (with life of Pompey); Lives vol. 7 (with life of Caesar); Lives vol. 9 (with life of Mark Antony)

N5760 .P57 J. J. Pollitt, The Art of Rome; c. 753 B.C.-337 A.D.; sources and documents (1966). Literary sources

PA6156 .A4 1921 3 vs. The scriptores historiae augustae, Loeb Classical Library / with an English translation by David Magie (1921-32)
PA6700 .A2 1997 v. 1 & 2 Suetonius, Lives of the Caesars (vol. 1 with lives of Caesar, Augustus, Tiberius and Caligula; vol. 2 with lives of Claudius, Nero, Galba, Otho, Vitellius, Vespasian, Titus and Domitian)

References on History (including Biography) and Mythology

DG203 .W470 D. Bowder (ed.), Who Was Who in the Roman World (1980)

DG274 .G750 1985 M. Grant, The Roman Emperors: A Biographical Guide to the Rulers of Imperial Rome 31 BC - AD 476 (1985)

HQ1136 .H45 1999 E.A. Hemelrijk, Matrona docta : educated women in the Roman élite from Cornelia to Julia Domna (1999)

Main Ref DE5 .09 2003 Oxford Classical Dictionary, 3rd ed. rev. (2003)

DG274 .S3 1995 C. Scarre, Chronicle of the Roman Emperors: The Reign-by-Reign Record of the Rulers of Imperial Rome (1995)

BL303 T75 1970  E. Tripp, Crowell's Handbook of Classical Mythology (1970)

Roman Sculpture

Folio NB1296.3 .B66 Anthony Bonanno, Portraits and other heads on Roman historical relief up to the age of Septimius Severus (1976)

Q11 .C85 v.14 R. Brilliant, Gesture and rank in Roman art; the use of gestures to denote status in Roman sculpture and coinage (1963)

NB1875 .D38 2000 P.J.E. Davies, Death and the emperor : Roman imperial funerary monuments from Augustus to Marcus Aurelius (2000)

NX650 .W3 R47 2006 Sheila Dillon & Katherine E. Welch (eds.), Representations of war in ancient Rome (2006)

NB1296.3 .F454 2008 Jane Fejfer, Roman portraits in context (2008)

PC V258 dw Gods In Color: Painted Sculpture Of Classical Antiquity (exhibition catalog, 2007)

NB115 .H3 1968 P.G. Hamberg, Studies in Roman imperial art, with special reference to the state reliefs of the second century (1968)

NB85 .H3 George M. A. Hanfmann, Classical sculpture (1967)

N5760 .H65 2002 P.J. Holliday, The origins of Roman historical commemoration in the visual arts (2002)

AS281 .A34 v. 80 pt. 2 Jakob Munk Højte, Roman imperial statue bases : from Augustus to Commodus (2005)

NB1810 .H87 1996 Janet Huskinson, Roman Children's Sarcophagi: Their Decoration and its Social Significance (1996)

NB133.5 .S46 K66 1995 M. Koortbojian, Myth, meaning, and memory on Roman sarcophagi (1995)

GALILEO netLibrary electronic book M. Koortbojian, Myth, meaning, and memory on Roman sarcophagi (1995)

NB94 .K69 2008 R.M. Kousser, Hellenistic and Roman ideal sculpture : the allure of the classical (2008)

NB85 .L3 1972 A.W. Lawrence, Greek and Roman Sculpture (1972)

NB115 .M273 2008 M. Marvin, The language of the muses: the dialogue between Roman and Greek sculpture  (2008)

NB1296.3 .R67 1997 Charles Brian Rose, Dynastic commemoration and imperial portraiture in the Julio-Claudian period (1997)

NB115 .S74 2003 P. Stewart, Statues in Roman society : representation and response (2003)

NB115 .S79 D. E. Strong, Roman Imperial Sculpture: an introduction to the commemorative and decorative sculpture of the Roman Empire down to the death of Constantine (1961)

NB115 .S8 1969 E. Strong, Roman Sculpture from Augustus to Constantine (1960)

NB133 .T57 Mario Torelli, Typology and structure of Roman historical reliefs (1982)

DG12 .A51 v. 48 Frances Van Keuren et alii, "Unpublished Documents Shed New Light on the Licinian Tomb, Discovered in 1884-1885, Rome," Memoirs of the American Academy in Rome, vol. 48 (2003), pp. 53-139.

<>NB1296.3 .F76 2000 Eric R. Varner (ed.), From Caligula to Constantine : tyranny & transformation in Roman portraiture (2000)

PA9 .M686 Suppl. no.194 Susan Wood, Imperial women : a study in public images, 40 B.C.-A.D. 68 (1999)

Julio-Claudian Period

Stacks CC1 .A512 and JStor:  Four articles on "Pax" relief from Ara Pacis:
by B.S. Spaeth, "The Goddess Ceres in the Ara Pacis Augustae and the Carthage relief," in American Journal of Archaeology 98 (1994) 65-100;  by G.K. Galinsky in American Journal of Archaeology 96 (1992) 457-475; by N. de Grummond in AJA 94 (1990) 663-677; and by G.K. Galinsky in AJA 70 (1966) 223-43.

NB105 .A34 A7 2000 R. Brilliant, My Laocoon (2000).

NB133 .C37 1995 D. Castriota, The Ara Pacis Augustae and the Imagery of Abundance in Later Greek and Roman Imperial Art (1995)

PC V258 dv Sara Kathryn Chumbley, Livia in the Guise of Pax: Augustan Propaganda through Portraiture and Allusion (MA Thesis, Florida State Univ., 2003)
NB105 .A34 A7 2003 É. Décultot, J. Le Rider and F. Queyrel, eds., Le Laocoon : histoire et réception (papers from a 2002 colloquim)

DG279 .G17 1996 Karl Galinsky, Augustan Culture: An Interpretive Introduction (1996)

NA 323 .M845 1961 G. Moretti, The Ara Pacis Augustae (1961)

NB133 .R6813 2007 Orietta Rossini, Ara Pacis (2007)

NB163 .P6 S23 G. Säflund, The Polyphemus and Scylla groups at Sperlonga (1972)

NA323 .S5 E. Simon, Ara Pacis Augustae (1968)

Folio NA9204 .R7 C66 2002 S. Younés, ed., Contro-progetti : Ara Pacis/Counter-projects : Ara Pacis (2002)

NA325 .F6 Z3 P. Zanker, Forum Augustum: das Bildprogramm (1968)

N 5760 .Z36 1988 P. Zanker, The Power of Images in the Age of Augustus (1988)

Flavian Period

DG291.6 .M32 W.C. McDermott, Roman portraits : the Flavian-Trajanic period (1979)

Folio NA9365 .P420 1983 M. Pfanner, Der Titusbogen (1983

Trajanic Period

DG294 .B46 2001J. Bennett, Trajan : optimus princeps (2nd ed., 2001)

NA1489.8 .A66 A83 2003 G. Calcani (ed.), Apollodoro e la Colonna Traiana a Damasco : dalla tradizione al progetto (2003)

DG59 .D3 C63 1988 C. Cichorius, Trajan’s Column : a new edition of the Cichorius plates / introduction, commentary, and notes by Frank Lepper and Sheppard Frere (1988)

Folio NA9340 .R8 C6313 2000 Filippo Coarelli, The Column of Trajan (2000)

NB165 .T73 G760 W.H. Gross, Bildnisse Traians (1940)

Folio NA9370 .R6 L4 1987 A. M. Leander Touati, The great Trajanic frieze : the study of a monument and of the mechanisms of message transmission in Roman art (1987)

Fine Arts Restricted Folio NA312 .P23 1997 vs. 1-2 & portfolio J.E. Packer, The Forum of Trajan in Rome : a study of the monuments (1997)

DG69 .P6 John Hungerford Pollen, A description of the Trajan column (1874)

Folio NA9370 .B4 R67 M. Rotili, L’Arco di Traiano a Benevento (1972)

DG124 .S33 1993 Daniel N. Schowalter, The emperor and the gods : images from the time of Trajan (1993)

DG59 .D3 S844 2005 A.S. Stefan, Les guerres daciques de Domitien et de Trajan : architecture militaire, topographie, images et histoire (2005)

Hadrian

DG295 .B57 1997 A.R. Birley, Hadrian: the restless emperor (1997)

Folio NB165 .A5 C5 C. Clairmont, Die Bildnisse von Antinous (1966)

NA327 .T5 K2 H, Kähler, Hadrian und seine Villa bei Tivoli (1950)

DG292.7 A57 L35 1984 R. Lambert, Beloved and God: The Story of Hadrian and Antinous (1984)

NA327 .T5 M23 1995 William L. MacDonald and John A. Pinto, Hadrian’s villa and its legacy (1995)

NB115 .T6 1967 J.M.C. Toynbee, The Hadrianic school, a chapter in the history of Greek art (1967)

DG70 .T6 Y6813 2005 M. Yourcenar, Hadrian’s villa : between heaven and earth : a tour with Marguerite Yourcena (2005)

Antoninus Pius

DG296 .H8 1975 Willy Hüttl, Antoninus Pius (1975)

NA9340 .V3 V63 1973 L. Vogel, The column of Antoninus Pius (1973)

Marcus Aurelius

DG297 .B5 A.R. Birley, Marcus Aurelius (1966)

B580 .H28 2006 Marcus Aurelius, Meditations, translated with notes by Martin Hammond ; with an introduction by Diskin Clay (2006)

NB165 .A85 R9 I.S. Ryberg, Panel reliefs of Marcus Aurelius (1969)

NA9340 .R4 C65 2000 John Scheid & Valérie Huet (eds.), Colonne Aurélienne : autour de la colonne aurélienne. Geste et image sur la colonne de Marc Aurèle à Rome (2000)

Commodus

Stacks CC1 .A512 and on reserve, PCV258cgLC R. Hannah, "The Emperor's Stars: The Conservatori  Portrait of Commodus," American Journal of Archaeology 90 (1986) pp. 337-342, on Commodus as Hercules.

PC V258 du Olga Palagia, "Imitation of Herakles in Ruler Portraiture: A Survey, from Alexander to Maximinus Daza," Boreas 9 (1986) pp. 137-151.

DG299 .H45 2002 O. Hekster, Commodus : an emperor at the crossroads (2002)

Septimius Severus and Severan Portraiture

Folio DG300 .B24 1996 D. Bagaral, Victory of propaganda : the dynastic aspect of the imperial propaganda of the Severi, the literary and archaeological evidence AD 193-235 (1996)

DG300 .B57 1989 A.R. Birley, Septimius Severus : the African emperor (rev. ed., 1989)

DG300 .M975R G.J. Murphy, The reign of the emperor L. Septimius Severus, from the evidence of the inscriptions (1945)

N7588 .N6 v. 1-2 S.A. Nodelman, Severan Imperial Portraiture (1964)

NB165 .S45 S6 1972 (put on reserve from Repository) D. Soechting, Porträts des Septimus Severus (1972)

DG300 .S48 2007 Simon Swain, Stephen Harrison, J. Elsner (eds.), Severan culture (2007)

Folio NA335 .L4 W37 1993 J.B. Ward-Perkins, The Severan buildings of Lepcis Magna : an architectural survey (1993)

Caracalla

N5613 .F47 C.C. Vermeule, "Caracalla and the Tetrarchs: Roman Emperors as Hercules," in Festschrift für Frank Brommer (1977) pp. 289-294

Elagabalus

DG303 .F74 1989 M. Frey, Untersuchungen zur Religion und zur Religionspolitik des Kaisers Elagabal (1989)

Soldier Emperors

DG305 .B7 G.C. Brauer, The age of the soldier emperors : Imperial Rome, A.D. 244-284 (1975)

Tetrarchy and Diocletian

DG313 .R44 2004 R. Rees, Diocletian and the tetrarchy (2004)

Constantine

NA9370 .R6 A37 2001
Maria Letizia Conforto, ed., Adriano e Costantino : le due fasi dell’arco nella valle del Colosseo (2001)

NA5620 .A1 H65 2004 R.R. Holloway, Constantine and Rome (2004)

NA9370 .R6 A73 1999 Patrizio Pensabene and Clementina Panella, eds., Arco di Costantino tra archeologia e archeometria (1999)

N6911 .Z465 2004 F. Zeri, L’Arco di Costantino : divagazioni sull’antico (2004)

Roman Architecture

NA2543 .S6 A52 1997 James C. Anderson, Roman architecture and society (1997)

NA310 .M2 1982 W. L. MacDonald, The Architecture of the Roman Empire,  v.1-2 (1982-86)

Main Ref NA310 .N28 1968 E. Nash, Pictorial Dictionary of Ancient Rome (1968), v. 1-2

Main Ref DG68 .R5 1992 L. Richardson, A new topographical dictionary of ancient Rome (1992)

NA260 .R6 1969 D. S. Robertson, Greek and Roman Architecture (1969)

NA310 .S44 1983 F. Sear, Roman Architecture (1982)

TH16 .T38 2003 R.M. Taylor, Roman builders : a study in architectural process (2003)

NA310 .W32 1988 J.B. Ward-Perkins, Roman Architecture (1988)

NA 310 .W34 1981 J.B. Ward-Perkins, Roman Imperial Architecture (1981)

Folio NA310 .W55 2000 Mark Wilson Jones, Principles of Roman architecture (2000)

Useful Web Sites

De Imperatoribus Romanis (DIR): An Online Encyclopedia of Roman Emperors (with biographies of emperors and bibliographies on them).

Virtual Library Museums Pages is a site that provides links with museum home pages both in U
S and abroad. These home pages of museums have images and explanations of selected objects from their collections, and information on current exhibitions.

Perseus Art & Archaeology Page, with Catalogs of buildings and objects
http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/art&arch.html
Link to Perseus Sculpture Catalogue

Link to Perseus Architecture Catalogue

Link to Perseus Coin Catalogue

Link to database and library of American Numismatic Society, New York
http://numismatics.org/

Perseus Project, with major Latin authors (with online texts in Latin and English).

Internet Ancient History Sourcebook: Rome; English translations of historical texts from Roman times.

Latin Library:  major texts in Latin.
 

Databases that Can be Searched for Bibliography by Key Words:

http://www.google.com/ & http://scholar.google.com/ (The crawl site contains the full-text or optical character recognition [OCR] files for the majority of journals participating in JStor.)

http://books.google.com/ (with 7 million titles).

GIL, University of Georgia Libraries catalogue

Databases that can be reached from the GALILEO web site:

JStor (with all but most recent years of major English-language and a few foreign-language archaeology, classics, architecture and art history journals) — note that this can also be searched by http://scholar.google.com/
World Cat, which can be computer-searched for books located here and at other libraries; any books not at our library can be requested through Interlibrary Loan office, or, when available, through the GIL Universal Catalog.

Art Index, indexes articles on all periods of Western and Asian art history from ca. 125 journals from 1984 ff., with abstracts; can be searched by subjects and key words.

Art Index Retrospective 1929-1984 (indexes same journals as Art Index, for years 1929-1984, but does not have abstracts for articles).

Avery Index to Architectural Periodicals, covering journal literature on all periods of Western and Asian architecture, for the years 1930 ff. (this database can only be accessed from the UGA campus)

Dissertation Abstracts, which can be computer-searched for dissertations dealing with paper topics; these can usually be individually ordered by calling 800-521-3042 (be prepared to give UMI order number), or requested through Interlibrary Loan office for personal consultation.

L'Année Philologique  (1924- ); can be searched for place names, and names of artists and mythological characters. This comprehensive bibliography covers all types of publications dealing with all aspects of antiquity, including art and literature.
 

Paper length: 6-8 pages of textual presentation for undergraduates; 10-12 pages for graduate students.  Papers should include textual discussion, footnotes or endnotes and a bibliography of printed and electronic sources (click here and here for Archaeological Institute of America's formatting for printed and electronic sources).  Illustrations should be numbered in the order in which they are discussed, and figure numbers should be referred to in the text.

Do your best to present your own argument, which takes into consideration the physical evidence of the monument under consideration, any pertinent literary sources, any artistic parallels, and previous scholarship.  In as far as is possible, suggest new readings of the evidence, highlighting new contributions to the history of scholarship that you are making.
 

Possible Paper Topics that deal with Problematic Aspects of Important Works of Roman Art and Architecture (feel free to come up with your own topic, but please run topics of your invention by me, for my approval and input).  Note that bibliography provided here should only be thought of as a starting point for research.

1. Capitoline She-Wolf:
Is she an original Etruscan bronze casting, made for the early Roman Republic, or was she made in the 13th century AD?
Otto Brendel, Etruscan Art (1995)
A. Carruba, La lupa capitolina (2006)
G. Lombardi, "A Petrographic Study of the Casting Core of the Lupa Capitolina Bronze Sculpture (Rome, Italy) and Identification of its Provenance," Archaeometry 44.4 (2002), 601-612.
C. Mattusch, "More Light on the Lupa Controversy," Etruscan News 8 (2008), 14.
C. Presicce, La lupa captiolina (2000).

2.
Prima Porta Augustus (for an essay I authored on the Augustus of Prima Porta, go to Key Concepts):
Problem of the dating of the work, and its reconstruction.

Ramage,
Roman Art, figs. 0.5 and 3.
Kleiner, Roman Sculpture, pp. 63-67

Strong, Roman Art (hereafter, Strong) fig. 39; Kähler, Art of Rome and her Empire pl. p. 33; Strong, Roman Sculpture pl. III and p. 44; P. Zanker, The Power of Images in the Age of Augustus.

3. "Pax" relief from Ara Pacis, Rome:
How should the goddess on the southeast panel of the Ara Pacis be identified, and how should the flanking goddesses with billowing cloaks be interpreted?
Ramage, Roman Art, fig. 3.16; Strong fig. 34; Kleiner, Roman Sculpture, pp. 96-97; P. Zanker, The Power of Images in the Age of Augustus; Simon, Ara Pacis Augustae; D. Castriota, The Ara Pacis Augustae and the Imagery of Abundance (1995); Black, Augustan Propaganda and the Ara Pacis Augustae (1985).
Articles on "Pax" relief from Ara Pacis: by B.S. Spaeth, "The Goddess Ceres in the Ara Pacis Augustae and the Carthage relief," in American Journal of Archaeology 98 (1994) 65-100; G.K. Galinsky, "Venus, Polysemy, and the Ara Pacis Augustae," in American Journal of Archaeology 96 (1992) 457-475; by N. de Grummond, "Pax Augusta and the Horae on the Ara Pacis Augustae," in American Journal of Archaeology 94 (1990) 663-677; by G.K. Galinsky, "Venus in a Relief of the Ara Pacis Augustae," in American Journal of Archaeology 70 (1966) 223-43; and by Stefan Weinstock, "Pax and the 'Ara Pacis,'" in Journal of Roman Studies 50 (1960) 44-58.
S. Younés, ed., Contro-progetti : Ara Pacis/Counter-projects : Ara Pacis (2002;
Folio NA9204 .R7 C66 2002)
NB133 .R6813 2007 Orietta Rossini, Ara Pacis (2007)

4.  Laocoon Group, in palace of Titus, Rome in Roman times?, in Greek Baroque Style:
Is this an original Tiberian sculpture in Greek Baroque style by Hagesandros, Polydoros and Athenodoros?  Is this a Roman copy of a Greek Baroque sculpture?  Or is it a Hellenistic original? Or is it a forgery by Michelangelo?
Same sculptors' names appear on boat of Scylla Group from grotto/dining room of Tiberius, Sperlonga.
Ramage, Roman Art, fig. 4.10.
N5630 .P55 1986  Pollitt, Art in the Hellenistic Age (1986), fig. 124.
NB105 .A34 A7 2000 R. Brilliant, My Laocoon (2000).
NB94 .B48 1967  M. Bieber, Laocoon; the influence of the group since its rediscovery (1967),  stacks.
É. Décultot, J. Le Rider and F. Queyrel, eds., Le Laocoon : histoire et réception (papers from a 2002 colloquim; NB105 .A34 A7 2003)
NB163 .P6 S23 Säflund, Gösta, The Polyphemus and Scylla groups at Sperlonga (1972).
DG975 .S727 I23  G. Jacopi, The grotto of Tiberius and the National archaeological museum, Sperlonga (1967), stacks.
Link to my Classical and Hellenistic Greek Art web site's page with ancient texts pertaining to Laocoon Group.
Link to images and reconstructions of the Sperlonga grotto and the Scylla Group, with inscription on boat naming same sculptors as those of Laocoon Group.
Lynn Catterson, "Michelangelo's Laocoon?", Artibus et Historiae, vol. 26 no. 52 (2005), pp. 29-56; available through GALILEO on JStor.

5.  Portrait of Caligula in the Ny Carlsberg Glyptothek, Copenhagen:
Has his original coloration been convincingly reconstructed?
F. Johansen, Catalogue of Roman Portraits, Ny Carlsberg Glyptotek, vol. 1 (1994), pp. 136-137.
J. S. Ostergaard, "Caligula in the Ny Carlsberg Glyptotek, Copenhagen: Reconstructing the Polychromy of a Roman Portrait," article in catalogue, Gods in Color: Painted Sculpture of Classical Antiquity (2007), pp. 179 ff.

6. Antinous from Delphi (link to an interesting web site on Hadrian and Antinous):
Problem of interpreting the style and apparent melancholy of this and other portraits of Antinous, in terms of its relationship to earlier Greek sculptures and also to the concept of Antinous' deification.
Ramage, Roman Art, fig. 7.31.
Kleiner, Roman Sculpture, pp. 243-244.
Strong fig. 109; Kähler pl. p. 161; C. Clairmont, Die Bildnisse des Antinous; Lambert, Beloved and God.
Stacks:

NB165 .A5 A55 2005 Antinoos: Geliebter und Gott / [Annika Backe, Norbert Franken] (2005).

NB165 .A5 A58 2006 Antinous : the face of the Antique / [[essay by] Caroline Vout, catalogue edited by Penelope Curtis] (2006).
Folio NB165 .A5 49 1991 Hugo Meyer, Antinous: die archäologischen Denkmäler unter Einbeziehung des numismatischen und epigraphischen Materials sowie der literarischen Nachrichten : ein Beitrag zur Kunst- und Kulturgeschichte der hadrianisch-frühantoninischen Zeit (1991).

7.  Garland sarcophagus (accession no. 1999.11.7) at Michael C. Carlos Museum, Emory University, Atlanta:
Is there a unifying theme in its decoration?
H. Herdejürgen, Die antiken Sarkophagreliefs, vol. 6.2.1. Stadtrömische und italische Girlandensarkophage: Die Sarkophage des ersten und zweiten Jahrhunderts (1996)

8. Commodus as Hercules from Rome (also see topic 12 below):
How should we understand this characterization in terms of its impact on the Roman viewer?  Was the Roman viewer likely to have felt entirely positive about this type of heroic representation, with possible connotations of deification, of the arrogant emperor?
Ramage, Roman Art, fig. 8.36.
Kleiner, Roman Sculpture, pp. 276-277.
Strong fig. 149; Strong, Roman Sculpture pl. CXXI.
R. Hannah, "The Emperor's Stars: The Conservatori Portrait of Commodus," American Journal of Archaeology 90 (1986) pp. 337-342.
Hekster, Commodus : an emperor at the crossroads (2002; DG299 .H45 2002)
Also see reserve books on "Literary Sources on Roman Art", and Roman historians on Commodus (see account from Historia Augusta)

9.  Arch of Constantine, Rome:
Was the arch initially contructed in Constantine's time by Constantine and his rival Maxentius, or did Maxentius or Constantine add a storey to an arch that Hadrian built?

Ramage,
Roman Art, pp. 314-319.
Holloway, Constantine and Rome (2004; call number to be determined)
Adriano : architettura e progetto
(Stacks NA327 .T5 A33 2000).

Web site with summary of problem (note that this topic will require a knowledge of Italian).