The development of historiographical research and archeology have allowed us to dismantle the academic prejudice that saw in Roman art the decadent extension of the Greek one. With an original method, Filippo Coarelli has been able to create a history of Roman art that collects in an overall vision the archaeological and historical research carried out by scholars from different countries, basing his investigation on the continuous dialogue between archaeological data and the classical tradition on the origins of Rome. In the most ancient centuries of the Rome of the kings, the city was at the meeting of two rich and lively artistic worlds - the Etruscan one in the north and the Greek-Italic one in the south - and constituted an artistic periphery where varied influences and expressive modalities intertwined and interacted with local sensitivity. In the age of kings, Rome belonged to the relatively homogeneous territory of Tyrrhenian Italy, the signs of which can be seen in urbanism, in the celebration of the sovereign, in temples and in the introduction of writing. In the first part of the Republican age - the volume reaches up to the third century BC. - their own components begin to take shape in a continuous exchange of similarity and difference with respect to the surrounding worlds. The political picture has changed, with the expansion in Lazio and the creation of colonies, and this is how an artistic culture that is recognizable as "Roman" gradually begins to emerge.