Material Evidence Flashcards by mike upfold | Brainscape

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Tomb of Diver - 470BC

Whose tomb?

What significant?

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470BC

Greek tomb

Largest painting not on vase

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Tomb of Diver - 470BC

1st argument

Who

Effect on individual

Tree

Extension of

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470BC

Holloway

Comforted by image ‘’rapid passage to safety’’

Tree growing from steep cliff

Extension of attic vases (prototypes for painting)

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Tomb of Diver - 470BC

Depicted on symposium

Significance

Katapontismos

A

Kattabos (game), lyre, erotica

Depiction of greatness to come in afterlife

Leaping from cliffs to waves (mad by passion)

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Tomb of Diver - 470BC

D’Agostino

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470BC

Masonry tower Gates of Hades

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Tomb of Diver - 470BC

2nd Argument

Who

What

A

470BC

Slater

No evidence for Holloway’s metaphor for death in Greek art

‘’Simply an image of a wine symposium entertained by a diver’’

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Tomb of Diver - 470BC

Wrong with Slaters argument?

A

Seems ignorant to think like this

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Gaius Livanius Auctus and Cornelia Maxuma

What is it?

Significance

Tacitus

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Gaius Livanius Auctus and Cornelia Maxuma

Gravestone framing 2 individuals
|_> suggestive of relationship (marital)?

Erasure (damnatio memoriae)
|_> divorce of someone else

Tacitus - ‘’Brutus and Cassius shone brighter than all by the very fact that their portraits were unseen’’

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Gaius Livanius Auctus and Cornelia Maxuma

Importance of erasures

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Gaius Livanius Auctus and Cornelia Maxuma

It provokes - focus on whats been erased

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Gaius Livanius Auctus and Cornelia Maxuma

Best example

Other example (modern)

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Gaius Livanius Auctus and Cornelia Maxuma

Geta - Caracalla removed after he murders him
|_> Septimus Severus gives joint power

Great Fire of London monument

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Tomb Of The Baker - 50-20BC

Who, why important?

Where

Significance of frieze/inscription

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50-20BC

Eurysaces the baker ‘’apparet’’ (its obvious) |_> colloquial - connect with viewer

Greek name! (Freedman) new money

Virtually on main gate to city

Easy to connect with even if illiterate

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Tomb Of The Baker - 50-20BC

South frieze

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50-20BC

Sieving

Grinding

Grain receipt records

Reception

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Tomb Of The Baker - 50-20BC

North

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50-20BC

Baking

Dough to loaves

Kneading

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Tomb Of The Baker - 50-20BC

West

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50-20BC

Delivery to baskets

Weighing

Check

Removal

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Tomb Of The Baker - 50-20BC

Significant features

Circles

Columns

Overall

A

50-20BC

Circles kneading machines

Columns storage bins for dough

Large monument (statement)

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Tomb Of The Baker - 50-20BC

Genius Vs. Material argument

Seneca

Propertius

Horace

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50-20BC

Seneca - ‘’memory of genius is immortal’’

Propertius - ‘’my mind stands firm, a deathless ornament’’

Horace - ‘’I’ve made a monument more lasting than bronze and higher than the pyramid that marks a royal grace’’ - with his poetry.

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Tomb Of The Baker - 50-20BC

Genius Vs. Material argument

Pliny

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50-20BC

Pliny - explains Frontius says ‘’my memory will endure if my life has deserved it’’