Pompeii And Roman Painting

Question 1

Pompeii

Answer 1

Destroyed by Vesuvius in A.D. 79

Question 2

Answer 2

Forum at Pompeii

Destoryed in A.D. 79

• Was the political (civic), religious, and economic center of the city
• Romans found an irregular place and made it regular
• Basillica (NOT A CHURCH) at one end.

Question 3

Answer 3

Amphitheater at Pompeii

ca. 80 BC

• smaller than colosseum
• high parapet, arena dug into earth

Question 4

Answer 4

Brawl in the Amphitheater

ca. A.D. 60-79

in the Amphitheater at Pompeii

• Conceptual view - not completely faithful to portrayed structures

Question 5

Answer 5

Atrium of House of the Vettii

Pompeii

• Atrium - center room, rectangular hole in roof where rain flowed into pool at center and drained into water cisterns.

Question 6

Answer 6

Plan of Roman House

Pompeii

• Geometric plan with entryway, atrium, covicula (bedrooms), open space (wings), reception room, and courtyard with garden and colonades.

Question 7

Roman Painting: First Style

Answer 7

2nd century to early 1st century

• Looks like Ashlar Masonry, but is just plaster on rubble wall

Question 8

Answer 8

Samnite House

at Herculaneum

Roman Painting: First Style (2nd century to early 1st century BC)

Question 9

Roman Painting: Second Style

Answer 9

ca. 100 B.C. - 15 B.C.

• much more elaborate than first style
• lots of layers and depth
• all about illusionistic depth
• Megalographia - “big painting”

Question 10

Answer 10

Villa of Publius Fannius Synistor

at Boscoreale, near Pompeii

Roman Painting: Second Style (ca. 100 B.C. - 15 B.C.)

• columns used to portray perspective
• Tholos indicates sacred precinctds

Question 11

Answer 11

Villa of Livia

at Prima Porta, near Rome

Roman Painting: Second Style (ca. 100 - 15 B.C.)

• uses plants to portray depth (instead of architecture)
• completely surrounded by garden sancutary
• Organized, ordered, calm, beautiful, perfect
• Atmospheric Perspective - painting gets progressively blurrier and bluer the further away to portray depth.

Question 12

Answer 12

Villa of the Mysteries

at Pompeii

Roman Painting: Second Style (ca. 100-15 B.C.)

• Figural image with people
• Megalographia
• Commonly thought of as mysteries ritual, but not likely as rites were secret
• could be myth of Ariadne

Question 13

Roman Painting: Third Style

Answer 13

(ca. 15 B.C. - A.D. 60)

• Characterized by large areas of solid color, spindly architecture, ornamental detail, small images
• very dreamlike

Question 14

Answer 14

Villa of Agrippa Postumus

at Boscotrecase, near Pompeii

Roman Painting: Third Style (ca. 15 B.C. - A.D. 60)

• Very small depiction of rural sanctuary in center
• moonlit, peaceful, ideal, people are “sketchy” and not detailed
• feeling of floating in space, very dreamlike

Question 15

Roman Painting: Fourth Style

Answer 15

ca. A.D. 60 - 79

• mix between 2nd and 3rd styles
• open slots in solid space
• theatrical

Question 16

Answer 16

Fresco from Domus Aurea

at Rome

Roman Painting: Fourth Style (A.D. 60-79)

Question 17

Answer 17

Fresco from House of the Vettii

at Pompeii

Roman Painting: Fourth Style (ca. A.D. 60-79)

• myth of Ixion at end of room
• 2 side-wall paintings, parts of same long myth
• people in the architecture

Question 18

Roman Painting: Still life, portraits, and wall mosaics

Answer 18

1st century A.D.

Question 19

Answer 19

Still life with peaches and glass container

from Herculaneum

Roman Painting: Still Life (1st Century A.D.)

• Human element

Question 20

Answer 20

Portrait of husband and wife

from Pompeii

Roman Painting: Portraits (1st century A.D.)

Question 21

Answer 21

Neptune and Amphitrite

from Herculaneum

Roman Painting: Wall mosaics (1st century A.D.)