Shared Flashcard Set

Details

The Adoptives
The Adoptive emperors
8
Art History
Undergraduate 2
05/04/2010

Additional Art History Flashcards

 


 

Cards

Term
[image]
Definition

 

  • Markets of Trajan
  • c. 100
  • different medium and style for different function
  • concrete faced in brick for market
  • post and lintel with marble for temple
  • 150 shops (first malls)
  • luxury complex brings good from all over into Rome

 

Term
Ostia
Definition

  • first roman colony founded 350 BC
  • port town of Rome
  • had a castrum plan but grew out of the forum 
  • capitolium (tall podium) frontal
  • middle class Pompeii 

Term
[image]
Definition

 

  • Horrea of Epagathiana
  • c. 125
  • warehouse- very abundant in Ostia
  • different colored bricks
  • annona 
  • dolia - huge vase for storage put underground like a refrigerator 

 

Term
[image]
Definition

 

  • Arch of Trajan
  • c. 120
  • triumveral arch to peace
  • single bay
  • composite order columns
  • victories in spandrels 
  • annona relief (annona coming into Ostia)
  • Trajan handing out loaves of bread to people of the empire
  • everyday life of citizen portrayed on imperial monument 

 

Term
[image]
Definition

 

  • Full length portrait of Trajan
  • c. 100
  • successful general
  • adlo cutio pose
  • similar to Augustus (wore armor) but Augustus wasn't general just wore armor to show diplomacy and pax romana bare feet symbolize godliness 
  • Trajan armor shows military victory and prosperity 
  • feet have the sandals of a Roman general
  • not a great piece of art but shows him in typical general clothes

 

Term
[image]
Definition

 

  • Anaglypha Trajani
  • c. 120
  • relief sculpture about debt relief 
  • his conquests have made him rich (iron, silver, gold, etc)
  • kept inside the forum and contains in it the Rostra of Divine Julius Caesar, the basilica Julia, ceremonial fig tree, temple of Vespasian, and temple of concord
  • has both eastern and western side of the forum
  • has Trajan announcing the relief debt or Trajan sitting down giving out cash
  • getting rid of tax debt, a great PR move and move for the people of Rome
  • shows the burning of the records that contained the taxes owed by the people

 

Term
[image]
Definition

 

  • Baths of Trajan
  • c. 100
  • conceived under Nerva and finished under Trajan
  • 5 times bigger than baths of Titus
  • precinct wall where non thermal activities take place
  • palestra with garden 
  • physical cleaning is becoming a minor part of the building
  • contains libraries 
  • relieving and flat arches 
  • bilateral symmetry around a central axis
  • women/children morning bathing time
  • men in afternoon 
  • central area was a huge lobby where people could gather and talk
  • first time in imperial bath there is a nataio-swimming pool
  • aqa traiana- Trajan built a special aqueduct for this building
  • Apollodorus of Damascus was the architect 

 

Term
[image]
Definition

 

  • Forum of Trajan
  • c. 100
  • biggest gift to the city of Rome
  • designed by Apollodorus of Damascus 
  • added this forum to Rome makes everything look whole and ordered
  • digs up a 100ft hill so it all fits
  • picks up from the forum of Augustus the hidden exedra (2 of them) and adds a 2 story building and 2 buildings behind that (2 libraries) and the column of Trajan 

 

Supporting users have an ad free experience!