high empire

Question 1

Answer 1

Satellite view of Timgad, Algeria

The plan of Trajan’s new colony of Timgad in North Africa features a strict grid scheme, with the forum at the intersection of the two main thoroughfares, the cardo, and the decumanus.

military city

Question 2

Answer 2

Apollodorus of Damascus, Forum of Trajan

Cannot enter at the ends, only sides

Rome’s largest forum featured a basilica with clerestory lighting, two libraries, a commemorative column, and a temple of the deified Trajan.

Question 3

Answer 3

Column of Trojan

ells the story of the Dacian wars in 150 episodes

depict all aspects of the campaigns, from battles to sacrifices to road and fort construction

one continuous frieze

spiral line are not straight

started from the top and went down

Question 4

Answer 4

Apollodorus of Damascus

Markets of Trajan

a vast multilevel complex of barrel-vaulted shops and administrative offices

Question 5

Answer 5

Markets of Trajan

interior of the great hall

resembles a modern shopping mall

Concrete groin vaults cover the central space

housed two floors of shops, with the upper ones set back and lit by skylights

Question 6

Answer 6

Portrait bust of Hadrian

He was adopted by Trojan to become the next emperor

first Roman emperor to wear a beard

was Spanish

used to be an architect but was criticized by Apollodorus, who he later executed

Question 7

Answer 7

Pantheon

built by Hadrian

looks “Greek”

Question 8

Answer 8

inside of Pantheon

Has coffers up the ceiling which gives it strength

has drains in the floor

largest open man-made space without columns

used pumice

Painter is buried inside (Raffaello)

Gods are named after planets

Question 9

Answer 9

restored view of Pantheon

alters around a circle for the gods

when Rome was Christianized, it was turned into a church and all the statues were melted down and turned into statues of religious figures

Question 10

Answer 10

Hadrians Villa

Moved government there so he always knew what was going on + ha some control over them

modeled some of the areas of his villa after some places in the world

Canopus and Serapeum is meant to look like Greek ruins

Question 11

Answer 11

Al-Khazneh (Treasury)

originally a mausoleum

e designer used Greek architectural elements in a purely ornamental fashion and with a studied disregard for Classical rules.

Question 12

Answer 12

Model of an Insula

ancient Roman apartments

made of concrete

stores on the first floor

did not have own bathroom

multiple people could live in one

Question 13

Answer 13

Relief of vegetable vendor

could be used for a tomb

not accurate

painted terracotta

under art

abstract

Question 14

Answer 14

Decursio,

a pedestal of the Column of Antoninus Pius

not entirely realistic

The ground is the whole surface of the relief, and the figures stand on floating patches of earth

Question 15

Answer 15

Equestrian statue of Marcus Aurelius

looked like a Christian emperor so rather than being melted it was kept

meant to look superhuman

right hand up in a blessing

head of an enemy may have been under the horse’s hooves

Question 16

Answer 16

Commodus as Hercules

making self look might like a go Hercules

Question 17

Answer 17

Sarcophagus with the myth of Orestes

becomes a tradition to bury dead in a sarcophagus

attached to a wall

Themes from Greek mythology, such as the tragic saga of Orestes, were common subjects

Question 18

Answer 18

Asiatic sarcophagus with kline portrait of a woman, from Rapolla

Eastern one

reliefs are all around

On western ones they are only on the sides

Question 19

Answer 19

Mummy of Artemidorus

waxy

romanize images

made to actually look like the person