Chapter 5

communicate his right to rule in words and pictures

state’s vast resources were marshaled to promote the political ideology and artistic tastes of a single all-powerful ruler

Roman portraits sculptors were called on to record the likenesses of a youthful head of state

portrait shows that imperial women of Augustan age shared emperor’s eternal youthfulness

purpose to create impression of ruling family that was descended from the gods

monument celebrating Augustan return

another Augustan allusion to Periclean Athens

Ultimate example of Second Style illusionism on the walls

artists no longer attempted to replace walls of room with three-dimensional worlds of their own creation, decorated walls with linear fantasies sketches on monochromatic backgrounds

eternally youthful divine being, consistent with his self-identification as the son of a god

marble city on par with Athens during Golden Age of Pericles

the temple in honor of this deified father Julius Caesar- and erected a new gateway to civic center that celebrated his Parthian victory

Second and Third Style in mural painting