Column of Trajan, Rome, A.D. 113  (10-44)  EARLY ROMAN IMPERIAL

-dedicated in the year 113

-door at bottom.. base as well and then a 100 roman foot tall column

-band wraps around it

-statue of st peter on the top.. used to be Trajan

 functions:

1) inscription above door talks about how in order to build this complex they had to remove dirt as high as the column.

2) It's a victory monument.. story of conquest of province of Daecia

-pole was placed when the Roman's won a battle and they would pile up armor from the enemy

3) Inside the door in the bottom stores Trajan's ashes… served as his tomb.

Inscription on column tells a story.. it's like a scroll wrapping around it with text that tells a particular story. These stories are based on Trajan's own writings. 

Pantheon  EARLY IMPERIAL

Rome

(10-49 to 10-51)

●       Pantheon: dedicated to all the gods

●       Up on a podium and a deep porch

●       Dome

○       142 feet tall and wide

○       5 rows of Coffers gives texture and visual interest with 28 in each row, makes the dome look higher.

○       28 constitutes a month.

○       4 represents the earth (elements)

●       Made out of brick (plain)

○       Greek was concentrated on the outside

○       Romans focus on the inside not the outside

Column Base of Antoninus Pius     EARLY IMPERIAL

by Apotheosis and Decursio

(10-57, 10-58)

●       Cremation frees the soul of the body and lets the soul rise up to heaven

●       Apotheosis means becoming a god.

●       Decursio is the precession of soldiers honoring the dead (going around in a circle)

●       View point is bird’s eye and created some ground for each figure

Portrait of Caracalla  LATE IMPERIAL

 (10-64)

●       Puts a lot of people to death

●       Very mean person (shown in sculpture, angry looking) creates an X through his face

●       Never smiled so a scowl etched in his face

●       Assassinated by his own soldiers

Tetrarchs

Late Imperial Period (10-73)

●       Made a co-emperor with a junior emperor each, split the area into 4 parts.

●       Carved out of Porphyry (purple associated with emperor)

●       All the figures look the same except for beards.

●       Gesture of Harmony

●       Divine things look abstract

Palace of Diocletian 

Split, Croatia

Late Imperial Period (10-74)

●       Built for protection and the view

●       Façade of the palace looks like the front of a temple

●       Emperor is “divine” while alive

●       Palace is like a temple because the emperor is a god

Acrolithic Statue of Constantine 

Late Imperial Period (10-77)

●       In the apse is a huge sculpture of Constantine

●       Very large eyes (style)

Constantine is the first emperor to embrace Christianity

Good Shepherd and Jonah 

ceiling, catacomb of SS. Pietro and Marcellino, Rome,

Late Antiquity/Early Christian Art (11-5)

●       Shelves for bodies

●       Underground

●       Body wrapped in linen with perfumes

●       Marble covering the shelf with description

●       Rooms for families or groups

●       Had paintings and art

●       Tufa stone covered with plaster and painted on

●       Arm raised portraits (praying)

●       Andimion (Jonah) symbolizes eternal rest

●       Good Shepherd looking over them

●       Pictorial Prayers

Sarcophagus of Junius Bassus  

Late Antiquity/Early Christian Art (11-7)

●       Organized by rows and columns

●       Small looking statues

●       Christ with no beard (youthful) with peter and paul

●       Standing on the sky god (in the heaven)

●       Christ as earthly ruler

Old St. Peter’s Basillica 

Rome- atrium, nave, aisles, transept, apse, clerestorey

Late Antiquity/Early Christian Art (11-9)

●       Tomb of Peter in the Apse

●       Over 300 feet long

●       Atrium had a fountain

●       Memorial building

●       Cemetery underneath

Santa Sabina

Rome

Late Antiquity/Early Christian Art (11-10)

●       “Every Sunday church”

●       Reused columns

●       Christ will appear in the east, anticipation on Christ

●       Men on Left, Women on right