Barron's: Chapter 6 - Roman Art Flashcards
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Time Period
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- 753 B.C.E. - Fifth Century C.E.
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Legendary found of Rome by Romulus and Remus
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- 753 B.C.E.
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Roman Republic
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- 509 B.C.E. - 27 B.C.E.
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Roman Empire
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- 27 B.C.E. - 410 C.E.
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Essential Knowledge
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- Roman art can be subdivided into the following periods: Republican, Early Imperial, Late Imperial, and Late Antique
- Roman architecture has a large public element and is influenced by Etruscan and Greek models. Roman architecture shows a great deal of variety and a willingness to experiment
- Roman art was revived with an eighteen-century interest in Roman laws, government, and philosophy
- Roman writing contains some of the earliest contemporary accounts about art and artists
- Epics form the foundation of Roman writing. The texts were at first transmitted orally, but later were written down
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House of Vettii
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- second century B.C.E, first century C.E.
- rebuilt c. 67-69 C.E.
- stone and fresco
- Pompeii, Italy
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The Colosseum
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- 72-80 C.E.
- stone and concrete
- Rome
- real name is the Flavian Amphitheatre
- Roman Empire
- Cross-Cultural Comparisons: Civic Spaces
- Hadid, MAAXI
- Athenian Agora
- Mies van der Rohe, Seagram Building
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Treasury, Monastery and Great Temple of Petra, Jordan
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- c. 400 B.C.E.-100 B.C.E.
- cut rock
- Jordan
- Roman Republic
- Cross-Cultural Comparisons: City Planning
- Forum of Trajan
- Persepolis
- Hadid, MAAXI
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Apollodorus of Damascus, Forum of Trajan
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- 106-112 C.E.
- Rome, Italy
- Roman Empire
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Apollodorus of Damascus, Basilica of Ulpia
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- c. 112 C.E.
- Rome, Italy
- Roman Empire
- Ulpius was Trajan’s family name
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Market of Trajan
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- 106-112 C.E.
- brick and concrete
- Rome
- Roman Empire
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Pantheon
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- 118-125 C.E.
- concrete with stone facing
- Rome
- dedicated to all the gods
- Roman Empire
- Cross-Cultural Comparisons: Houses of Worship
- Chartres Cathedral
- Angkor Wat
- Templo Mayor
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Pentheus Room
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- 62-79 C.E.
- fresco
- Pompeii, Italy
- triclinium: dining room in a roman house
- Roman Empire
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Head of a Roman Patrician
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- 75-50 B.C.E.
- marble
- Museo Torlonia, Rome
- Roman Republic
- Cross-Cultural Compairsons: Portraits
- Mblo
- Sin Sukju
- Sherman, Untitled #228 from the History of Portraits series
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Augustus of Prima Porta
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- 20 C.E.
- marble
- copy of a bronze original
- Vatican Museums, Rome
- idealized view of the Roman emperor
- Roman Empire
- Found in the Villa of Livia, Augustus’ wife
- Cross-Cultural Comparisons: Power and Authority
- Ndop
- Lindauer, Tamati Waka Nene
- Houdon, George Washington
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Column of Trajan
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- 112 C.E.
- marble
- Rome
- burial chamber of Trajan, whose ashes were placed in the base
- Roman Empire
- Cross-Cultural Comparisons: Narrative in Art
- The Bayeux Tapestry
- Night Attack on the Sanjo Palace
- Walker, Darkytown Rebellion
