Practice question · Put in order
Order these Roman works and developments chronologically.
- Column of Trajan (113 CE)
- Pantheon rebuilt under Hadrian (~126 CE)
- Augustus of Prima Porta (~20 BCE)
- Republican veristic portrait busts
- Colosseum opens (80 CE)
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- The sequence runs from republic to empire.
- The great dome comes at the end of the span.
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- Republican veristic portrait busts
- Augustus of Prima Porta (~20 BCE)
- Colosseum opens (80 CE)
- Column of Trajan (113 CE)
- Pantheon rebuilt under Hadrian (~126 CE)
Why
From wrinkled republicans to Hadrian’s dome in under two centuries, the empire’s art tracking its arc from oligarchy to autocracy to imperial confidence.
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