TC357: Images of Rome

Rome in the American and French Revolutions

I. Roman Images in the Eighteenth Century

A. Palladian Architecture

1. Renaissance basilica designed by Palladio (Andrea di Pietro della Gondola, 1508-80). Vicenza, Italy. Exterior

2. Renaissance basilica designed by Palladio (Andrea di Pietro della Gondola, 1508-80). Vicenza, Italy. Interior.

3. Teatro Olympico of Palladio in Vicenza, Italy. Exterior view. Constructed between 1580 and 1584, it opened after his death with a 1585 performance of Sophocles' Oedipus Rex. Perfectly preserved, the semicircular indoor theater recalls the design of ancient Greek and Roman venues.

4. Teatro Olympico: interior

5. Teatro Olympico: interior

6. Teatro Olympico: interior

7. Villa Rotonda (or Villa Capra) designed by Palladio. A classic of the Pantheonic type (resembling the Roman pantheon). Vicenza, Italy

8. Monticello, home of Thomas Jefferson

B. Piranesi

1. Eighteenth-century drawing: "Il tempio d'Iside di faccia, con le due ali del suo peristilio" (The front of the Temple of Isis, with the two wings of its peristyle), by Giovanni Battista Piranesi (1720 - 1778) and Francesco Piranesi (1748 - 1810).

2. Hadrian's villa. Serapeum (Temple of Nymphs). Semicircular hall. Engraving by G. B. Piranesi

C. Other

Roman Motif; 18th century. Spiez, Switzerland, Schloss.

II. Roman Virtue in Paint: David

1. The Intervention of the Sabine Women. 1799 painting by Jacques-Louis David (1748-1825).

2. Oath of the Horatii by Jacques Louis David. Ancient sources make no mention of this oath, which was apparently invented by David.

3. The Tennis Court Oath

4. The Lictors Bring to Brutus the bodies of his sons, Jacques Louis David.

III. The French Revolution

Marianne, symbol of France, wearing a Phrygian cap

IV. After the Revolutions: Napoleon as Caesar

1. Les Invalides, where Napoleon is buried

2. Napoleon's Tomb

3. Napoleon's Tomb, Paris. Relief.

4. Napoleon's Tomb; panel on Napoleon's Code. Paris.

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