New types of housing are also being created:
villa – country houses for Roman patricians.;
domuses – city houses for rich Romans;
insulas are multi—storey houses for the poor.
In the second century, original public buildings appeared:
thermal baths – public baths that could accommodate up to seven thousand visitors and consisted of swimming pools, libraries, gyms and other cultural and entertainment facilities;
Basilicas are rectangular buildings divided by columns into several longitudinal rooms (naves), which were used for judicial proceedings and the conclusion of trade transactions.
Subsequently, after the recognition of Christianity as the state religion (313), the construction of Christian churches began, which took the form of a basilica.
A true gem of Roman culture was the sculptural portrait, which emphasized the uniqueness and individuality of a person and demonstrated the ability of ancient authors to capture his inner state. The origins of this genre of art lie in the Etruscan funerary portrait and in the ancient custom of the Romans themselves to place posthumous images of their ancestors in the house, often in the form of masks cast from wax. And if there is some idealization of images in earlier portraits, then in the images of later times, in the works of sculptors, the desire to represent the personality of the person being portrayed prevailed. In the future, the protocol fixation of all the individual features of a person's appearance will become the most characteristic feature of a Roman sculptural portrait.