high empire Flashcards

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

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.

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

Apollodorus of Damascus
Markets of Trajan
a vast multilevel complex of barrel-vaulted shops and administrative offices

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

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

Pantheon
built by Hadrian
looks “Greek”

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

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

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

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.

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

Relief of vegetable vendor
could be used for a tomb
not accurate
painted terracotta
under art
abstract

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

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

Commodus as Hercules
making self look might like a go Hercules

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

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

Mummy of Artemidorus
waxy
romanize images
made to actually look like the person