Building Programme Flashcards
Building Programme
Ara Pacis
When
13-9BC
After return from Spain and Gaul
Building Programme
Ara Pacis
Piety
Traditional Gods (Tellus//Venus Genetrix//Ceres)
Altar of Peace (annual sacrifices)
Priest/Flamines on N//S frieze
Aeneas sacrificing pig (veiled) - W wall
Aug. Leading ‘Old Religion’ ‘‘first among equals’’ - doesnt appear above
Building Programme
Ara Pacis
Military success
|_> peace from war
Roma seated on weapons
|_> ‘‘soldiers shall only take up arms to repress arms’’ (OVID)
Senators wearing laurel wreaths and togas (N frieze)
Campus Martius (reserved for triumphs after war)
Dedicated after success in Spain and Gaul
Building Programme
Ara Pacis
Divine Ancestry
Imperial family moving forward together (S wall)
Romulus and Remus
Aeneas
Venus Genetrix
Building Programme
Ara Pacis
Prosperity
Peace
Unity
Wealth
Vegetal imagery (acanthis regen.) Scorpions/lizards
Tellus (grapes on lap, babies (Rome?)
|_> chiton emphasises breasts and abdomen
Procession of senators (political harmony) - N wall
Imperial family (same goal) - same way PAX ROMANA et AUGUSTA
Women and children (first ever on public monument)
Building Programme
Forum of Augustus
When
42BC (promised Mars Ultor)
Opened 2BC (unfinished)
Building Programme
Forum of Augustus
Piety
Temple of Mars Ultor
Venus Gentrix in exedrae
Zeus Amon
Building Programme
Forum of Augustus
Military
Colossus of Aug/Chariot of Aug (both ALONE)
Romulus (depicted as triumphator in right exedrae)
Standards kept here
Toga Virilis recieved here (military age)
Matters of military distinction decided by senate here
Commanders to war left from here (SUET)
Building Programme
Forum of Augustus
Divine Ancenstry
Left exedrae (Caesar, Julian line, Aeneas, Alban Kings)
Right exedrae (Romulus)
Building Programme
Forum of Augustus
Prosperity
Peace
Unity
Caryatids in porticos (Erectheion)
Luna/coloured marble from Carasco
Symmetry sacrificed due to refusal to give (not forced)
Zeus Amon (Egypt)
For justice (needed more space)
Building Programme
Forum of Augustus
What did PLINY THE ELDER say?
'’One of the most beautiful buildings in the world’’
Building Programme
Prima Porta
Piety
Apollo/Diana (griffin/stag) returning to Rome - SUPPORT
Eros on dolphin (reference to Venus)
Bare feet (divine)
Building Programme
Prima Porta
Military
Returning of Parthian Standards in middle (lost by Crassus @ Carrhae 53BC)
Adlocutio (speech to troops?)
Cuirass (breastplate)
Conquered women either side
Building Programme
Prima Porta
Divine Ancestry
Eros on dolphin (Venus)
Bare feel (divine Caesar)
Julius’ hair
Building Programme
Prima Porta
Prosperity
Peace
Wealth
Unity
Tellus (holding cornocopia)
Conquered women either side
Sol/Caelus unveiling new Aug. Peace
Apollo/Diana returning to peaceful Rome
As modelled on Ploykleitos’ Canon
|_> Greece
Adlocutio - relaxed and in control
NO CONFLICT on breastplate
