ROMAN ART

The Roman section presents works of the highest quality, which show the different genres of Roman art; among other works we show:

Silenus of the second century BC;

Neptune of the first century BC;

The portrait of a young man of the first century AD;

Nero child, first century AD;

Woman of Flavia age, end of the first century AD;

Jupiter Ammon, first century AD;

Portrait of woman of the second century AD;

Mars, II century AD;

Paris, II century AD.

While the portrait of woman of the third century AD comes from Palmyra.

As for the genre of painting the Romans loved frescoes and mosaics, while the vase painting was not so beloved.
This is not a minor remark, in fact the vase painting, in the ancient world, was largely devoted to funerary outfits and it expressed the religious cult of the dead.
But the approach of the Romans was very little inclined to transcendence, then the art in Rome is functional to the world of the living.

The mosaics and frescoes are therefore intended for the eyes of the living beings.

Then we see a typical mosaic of the first century BC and an equally typical fresco with an hermaphrodite of the second century AD.

he section ends with the famous Ecclesia Romana from the ancient Basilica of St. Peter.