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Introduction

This web publication honors all those who have worked
to bring the Ara Pacis so impressively back to life.

The Ara Pacis Augustae (Altar of Augustan Peace), known as the "Ara Pacis", is a world famous Roman monument housed in a new museum opened in 2006, the Museo dell'Ara Pacis. The Ara Pacis has undergone extensive changes since first constructed in 13-9 BCE, during the reign of Augustus. Like much of ancient Rome, it was gradually covered by earth and later buildings and was even forgotten for many centuries. During the long, complicated process of rediscovery, the most transforming event was the remarkable excavation and reconstruction of much of the Ara Pacis at a new location in 1837-38. It remains in this new location, between the Tiber River and the Mausoleum of Augustus, with hundreds of small changes and restorations, but largely as reconstructed at that time. The new museum building dramatically improves the conditions under which the Ara Pacis is preserved from further deterioration. The Ara Pacis continues to provide one of the primary sources for our understanding of Augustan art, social structure and political history.

Purpose of this Website

The main purpose of this website is to make available a larger, more comprehensive body of high quality images of the Ara Pacis Augustae than previously available in any print or web publication. This includes images of the monument itself, of the Museo dell’Ara Pacis in which the altar is newly housed and displayed, and of closely related materials.

I think of this website partly as a supplement to the superb 2006/2009 volume, Ara Pacis, by Orietta Rossini, Responsabile Ufficio Ara Pacis, which provides authoritative, up-to-date reviews of all aspects of the monument, with outstanding illustrations. This is now the single most informative volume about the Ara Pacis.

Augustan Altar

• Model and Diagrams
• Public Approach Front - east
• Ceremonial Front - west
• Side with Augustus - south
• Side opposite Augustus - north
• Interior Walls
• Sacrificial Altar
• Related Sculpture
• Original Site

Maps and Aerial Views

• Maps and Aerial Views

Published Images

• 1897 Lanciani
• 1902 Petersen
• 1907 Dissel
• 1948 Moretti
• 1953 Toynbee
• 1983 Ruesch and Zanardi
• 2003 Andersen
• 2003 Martellotti

Architecture

• Museum Exterior
• Museum Interior
• Piazza Augusto Imperatore

Text

• Introduction
• Photographs of the Ara Pacis
  
• Chronology
• Bibliography
• Credits
• Fair Use/Copyright
• Alphabetical Linked Index