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Roman Culture

Roman Culture. Review of Classical Style. Order Proportion Humanism Realism Idealism. Building an Empire. Appian Way Via Appia. Via Appia. Concrete. Developed concrete by mixing pozzolane (a volcanic material) with rubble. Aqueducts .

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Roman Culture

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  1. Roman Culture

  2. Review of Classical Style • Order • Proportion • Humanism • Realism • Idealism

  3. Building an Empire

  4. Appian WayVia Appia

  5. Via Appia

  6. Concrete • Developed concrete by mixing pozzolane (a volcanic material) with rubble.

  7. Aqueducts • System included siphons, tunnels, filter tanks and bridges • They still work • 222 million gallons a day

  8. Aqueducts

  9. The Coliseum The Flavian Amphitheatre

  10. The Coliseum

  11. The Coliseum

  12. Circus Maximus

  13. Roman Music

  14. Roman Music • The Epitaph of Seikilos • 1st century CE • Carved onto a tombstone • skolion – drinking song “As long as you live, be lighthearted. Let nothing trouble you. Life is only too short, and time takes its toll.”

  15. Roman Faces

  16. Funerary portrait, painted mummy case, from Fayoum, Egypt, lifesize, Roman period. (Ny Carlsberg Glyptothek, Copenhagen):

  17. Portrait of the Emperor Marcus Aurelius Antoninus (Caracalla), marble, 14.25" h, c. 217-230 A.D. (Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York): Portrait of a Roman, marble, lifesize, c. 80 B.C. (Palazzo Torlonia, Rome)

  18. Portrait of a Maiden, marble, c. 10.2" h, early Severan period, c. 193-200 A.D. (Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York): Portrait of Marciana, marble, 12.25" h, Hadrianic period, c. 117-138 A.D. (Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York):

  19. Roman Architecture

  20. Temple of Fortuna Virilis(Temple of Portunus)

  21. Temple of Vesta

  22. Trajan’s Column

  23. The Pantheon

  24. The Pantheon

  25. Giovanni Paolo Panini The Interior of the Pantheon Ca. 1734-1735 Oil on canvas

  26. The Oculus

  27. Pantheon

  28. Roman Statuary

  29. Commodus as Hercules

  30. Octavian • Roman, last decade of 1st century BCEfound in Aegean Sea

  31. Augustus • Augustus of Prima Porta. Early 1st century CE. Marble, height 6’8”

  32. Equestrian Statue of Marcus Aurelius. c. 176 CE. Bronze, originally gilded, height 11’6” 

  33. Roman Baths

  34. Bath, England

  35. Roman Baths Hypocaust

  36. A Day at the Bath What a person would do: • Get undressed in the dressing room • Oil themselves • Begin exercising in the palestra (exercise ground) • Then into the tepidarium (warm baths) • Then into the caldarium (hot baths) • After sitting in the steam the person would scrape off the oil • To finish off the bath the person would take a plunge in cold water and get redressed

  37. Roman Baths

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