ROMAN ART - REPUBLIC
subject: gods, heroic history, family
style/form: republican sculpture not idealistic but veristic (almost brutal in its frankness); painting largely illusionistic; architecture largely based on Greek aesthetic models (basically Hellenistic) but different structurally (ARCH: VOUSSOIRS, KEYSTONE & VAULT: BARREL, GROIN/CROSS,CONCRETE)
key concepts: architecture to encompass great internal space, art in service of the political state