Love And Luxury Flashcards
Features of House of Mars and Venus
Nude Venus
Mars usually old and bearded, should be at war
Cupids wearing his armour - Mars oblivious
Venus holding his spear
Greek hoplite shield
Mythological figures - offer distance but also very Greek
Features of purpose built brothel
2 floors
Living accommodation for women above?
Attainable luxury
Generic images of love: nothing shown is extreme or identifiable, business like to appeal to most people
Features of the House of Morality/ drinking party
Top LEFT in ROMAN style:
3 people lying diagonally facing into the centre
Social distiction determined by where you are sitting (very Roman)
Men and women together, drinking and eating
RIGHT in GREEK style: Narrower couches, bare chest, Dining is men only, and food/ drinking is seperate - greek style allows for distance between scene and viewers
Features of House of chase lovers
Indoor party - greek style from bare chests and necklace, party girls, drinking competition, everything has gone too far
Outdoor party - women and servents
Features of House of M Lucretius Fronto
Painting of a villa inside of house
Peristyle colonnade - from Greek outdoor architecture
Symmetrical, big
2 stories
3rd style, sitting in a landscape of other buildings
Garden with fences around it
Features of the Villa of Papyri, Herculaneum
Peristyle colonnades - Greek
Romans add gardens to the colonnades (greeks left bare)
No evidence of 2nd floor
Series of predominantly early hellenistic
Creates a cultured greek environment for guests to be led through - this luxury is okay in Naples, away from Rome
Construction of Villa Oplontis
Centre = mid 1st century BC - adds aceducts for baths
mid 1st century AD wing + big pool added
Features of Villa Oplontis (atrium)
Empty, no doors
columns and landscape paintings, incense burners/holders
Shields with 3D busts in them - associated with military honours
ON RIGHT - representation of Greek shields with Macedonian shields (Sign of Seleucids on it - Pompey)
Villas could be built on the shore after Pompey defeated pirates
Features of Villa Oplontis (triclinium)
Images of a sanctuary (tholos) - circular temple
Gold shield with star - Alexander the Great and all his successor kings’ bodyguards had gold shields - dedicated in shrine
Features of Villa at Boscotrecase
Landscape painting
illusion of depth is created by the use of darker colours and more dtail in the foreground, lighter colours and less detail in background
simple bucolic life - honest citizen ploughing his furrow
honouring the gods
tempes in background
idyllic and sacred landscapes
Features of Villa of Livia at Prima Porta
Garden painting: pretends to be a cave, in the cave looking out
contaning nature
potentially marble picket fence
seems denser because of foreground/background
bird cage
everything flourishing: fertility/rebirth - new era of Rome
Features of Mythological landscape
illusion of depth
Laestrygonians - giants destroying Odysseus’ men
creates mythological world
Features of Sperlonga
Dining space in the middle of a pond and looking into a cave
Cave has pieces of sculpture in it
Features of House of the silver wedding
Corinthian columns in the atrium
Extra plaster on the bottoms to protect marble from when people are rubbing against them
fountain in the middle in an impluvium
Features of House of Caecilius Iucundus
Herms - Greek public architecture being used in private houses (head and torso on tall square plinth)
receiving honours as gratitude from former slaves
Features of House of Lucretius Fronto
relatively small house for someone occupying his position
atrium black = low light it is effective
tablinium 3rd moving into 4th style wall divided 3 by 3 mythical paintings of Mars reaching into Venus' ciothes to grab her pretend garden with fence
Features of House of Vetii
Red room - scene of work done by cupids
Theban room - big mythological images
Unpleasant images of Pentheus/ other mythology
Often equated to Trimalchio but this is based on limited evidence based on names and some small personal items - not obviously a freedman
Features of the house and bakery of Terentius Neo
Bakery in the house
she holding up a stylus with wax tablet - education and literature
he holding scroll with label
possibly depicting owners of house or bakery
Features of house of baker
pretty small
house of baker painting in room e - tablinium
rather than literal depiction of his career, emblematic of his patronage and generosity
very white toga
Features of Pyramid tomb
wall is about 270 AD
gates also late date
tomb would have been isolated
last extravagant non-imperial tomb in Rome - Augustus’ rules on spending limits of burial
Features of Columbarium
Burial plots underground made available from members of households
- exslaves, to make sure that they are looked after in death
Features of Tomb of Haterii
pride in technology/work on the left
2 storey tomb
in the form of a temple, pick out where wife is represented - where the gods would be
above the eagles (apotheosis)
veiled
On top- reclining white children play - they seem alive
Her portrait on Venus’ body as was fashion of the time
Ancestor masks
Features of Theatre of Pompey
Reconstructed model of the campus martius
when built - would be mostly marsh/ open land
steps upto a temple - 5 shrines at the top
temple cutting into the seating
Features of Forma Urbis
300=310 AD shows theatre of Pompey
Doesn’t show anything cutting into the seating
Features of Theatre of Marcellus
Started by Caesar and finished by Augustus - brought in legislation about seating segregated social class - 3 storeys, divided into three sections - upper class vastly over represented as far as the space they were offered
Features of Circus Maximus
At peak 25k people could fit in
Features of Gladiator pair
Always a referee - man in toga with stick to intervene at a distance
protection for arm and shoulder
big helmet with timy eye holes - heavy and individuals unseen