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Roman Art 700 b.c.e to 300 c.e.

Roman Art 700 b.c.e to 300 c.e. Characteristics of Roman Art and Architecture. Images of power/ leadership (veni, vidi, vici – I came, I saw, I conquered) Complicated city structures/ domestic spaces Superrealistic representations

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Roman Art 700 b.c.e to 300 c.e.

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  1. Roman Art700 b.c.e to 300 c.e.

  2. Characteristics of Roman Art and Architecture • Images of power/ leadership (veni, vidi, vici – I came, I saw, I conquered) • Complicated city structures/ domestic spaces • Superrealistic representations • Invention of concrete – domes, vaults, arches – Engineers of the Ancient World • Monarchy&Republic, Early Empire, High Empire, Late Empire

  3. Head of a Roman Patrician (Otricoli), c. 75-50 BCE, marbleveristic imagines placed in cupboards and carried in processions/ patrician treated with respect that comes with age/ expressed ideals of the Roman Republic

  4. Statue of a Roman patrician, early 1st century CE

  5. Portrait of a husband and wife (Pompeii), c. 70-79 CEmarriage portrait in an exedra/ stylus and scroll as attributes of marriage and references to status

  6. Augustus (Primaporta), copy of a bronze original of c. 20 CE, marblea barefoot pontifex maximus: the youthful Octavius as Augustus Caesar/ propgandistic references to the Pax Romana (Tellus on his cuirass with a cornucopia)/ divine lineage (references to Venus, Aeneas, and Cupid at his feet)/ Ovid’s Art of Love offensive to a stoic advocate of virtue/ Parthian depicted on the cuirass returning the standard to Rome (with Apollo, Diana, the sun and moon all represented to suggest the blessing of the gods and cosmic order)

  7. Ara Pacis Augustae (Rome) 13-9 BCE

  8. a procession with children and the imperial family

  9. Pont-du-Gard (Nimes), c. 16 BCEa Roman aqueduct in southern Gaul/ advantages of arch construction, made possible with wedged-shaped voussoirs/ providing water to the provinces to establish a political agenda

  10. Colosseum (Rome) 79-80 CEfreestanding Flavian amphitheater

  11. barrel-vaulted corridors/ concrete construction, framing arches with engaged columns/ velarium

  12. Column of Trajan (Rome), 112 CETrajan, a non-Italian and the first of the “good emperors”/ a large, new forum built by Apollodorus of Damascus

  13. a column commemorating victory over the Dacians by means of a continuous spiral, narrative frieze/ a square base serving as a tomb/ emphasis on the emperor and his superior organizational skills

  14. Pantheon (Rome), 118-125 CEa temple to all the gods (with niches dedicated to the planets and the sun and moon)

  15. volcanic pumice used to create a concrete dome with coffers (once holding gilded-bronze rosettes)/ oculus/ spherical interior space

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