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Roman Art
2nd Century BC - 4th Century AD
26
Art History
Undergraduate 2
12/12/2007

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Term
[image]
Definition

Temple of Fortuna Virilis

 

Rome

 Roman Republican Architecure

Late 2nd Century BCE 

Term
[image]
Definition

Roman Patrician with Busts of Ancestors

 

Rome

Republican Sculpture

50 BCE 

Term
[image]
Definition

Brutus, founder of Rome

 

Rome

Republican Sculpture

1st Century BCE 

Term
[image]
Definition

Portrait of Julius Caesar

 

Rome

Julio-Claudian Period

50 BCE 

Term
[image]
Definition

Statue of Augustus

 

Prima Porta

Julio-Claudian Period

Early 1st Century BCE 

Term
[image]
Definition

Ara Pacis

 

Rome

Julio-Claudian Period

12 BCE 

Term
[image]
Definition

Sacrifice of Aeneas

Ara Pacis

 

Rome

Julio-Claudian

13 BCE 

Term
[image]
Definition

Mother Earth/Roma

 Ara Pacis

 

Rome

Julio-Claudian Period

13 BCE 

Term
[image]
Definition

Forum of Trajan

 

Rome

Roman Imperial Art

100 AD 

Term
[image]
Definition

Column of Trajan

 Forum of Trajan

 

Rome

Roman Imperial Art

100 AD 

Term
[image]
Definition

Reliefs from Column of Trajan, showing Dacian Wars

Column of Trajan, Forum of Trajan

 

Rome

Imperial Art

100 AD

 

-Trajan Addressing Troops

-Battle of Romans and Dacians, with Jupiter Aiding Romans 

Term
[image]
Definition

Colosseum (Flavian Ampitheatre)

 

Rome

Flavian Dynasty/Imperial Art

70 AD 

Term
[image]
Definition

Arch of Titus

 

Roman Forum

Flavian Dynasty/Imperial Art

80 AD 

Term

[image]

[image]

Definition

Spoils from the Temple at Jerusalem

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Triumph of Titus

 

Arch of Titus, Roman Forum

Flavian Dynasty/ Imperial Art

80 AD 

Term
[image]
Definition

Pantheon

 

Rome

120 BCE 

Term
[image]
Definition

Porphyry Tetrarchs

 

Venice

Late Imperial Art

300 AD 

Term
[image]
Definition

Basilica of Maxentius and Constantine

 

Rome

Late Imperial Art

310 AD 

Term
[image]
Definition

Colossal Head of Constantine

Basilica of Maxentius and Constantine

 

Rome

Late Imperial Art

310 AD 

Term
[image]
Definition

Arch of Constantine

 

Rome

Late Imperial Art

310 AD 

Term

[image]

 

Definition

Relief Sculpture from Arch of Constantine

 

1. Seige of Verona

2. Constantine on the Rostra

 

Key Points

-he took other emperor's sculptures and cut his heads into them

-he tried to show himself fighting foreign wars to make up for starting a civil war

-inscription saying he took over Rome to overthrow a tyrant

-hierarchic scale; figures look up at him

-rigid, unrealistic, frontal---moves away from classical to midieval 

Term
ROMAN HISTORY TIMELINE
Definition

1) ROMAN REPUBLIC - Brutus, Caesar

2) JULIO-CLAUDIAN EMPIRE - Caesar, then Augustus

3) FLAVIAN DYNASTY/EMPIRE - Vespasian, Titus

-Trajan

-EMPIRE DIVIDED - Tetrarchs (Constantine & Maxentius)

6) LATE IMPERIAL - Constantine 

Term
REPUBLICAN
Definition

2nd - 1st Century BCE

 

  • Verism
  • Importance of Ancestors 
Term
JULIO-CLAUDIAN
Definition

Late 1st Century - 50 AD

 

  • Augustus
  • Deified Caesar
  • Empire started
  • Turn away from Verism & death mask tradition
  • Return to Greek Classical golden age as sign of peace and prosperity 
Term
FLAVIAN DYNASTY
Definition

75 AD

 

  • Return to Veristic style of the Republic 
Term
LATE IMPERIAL
Definition

4th Century AD

 

  • Constantine
  • rigid, unrealistic, frontal --> shift from classical to medieval
  • propaganda to justify civil war & takeover
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