unit 7 roman art

Temple of Portunus

• @ Rome, Italy

• Republican period

• for the god that regulates the port

pseudoperitperal

ionic columns

podium temple

Sanctuary of Fortuna Primigenia

• Palestrina, Italy

• Republican period

• made with concrete

“fortune of being born first”

important well where oracles tell future

Portrait of “Brutus”

• from Republican period

• of bronze - only the head and neck are og

• old age was better to honor someone

Funerary Relief with Portraits of the Gessii

• conmemorative of a deceased individual

• from Rome

• of Marble

owner in the middle and slaves on the side - gave them their freedom after death

Nile Mosaic

• from Palestrina, Italy

• water environment

• of mosaic

• enormous room

in the sanctuary of fortuna primigenia

Gaius julius caesar

• in his office

• 40s BC

Gaius Julius Caesar Octaviamus

Called Agustus but goes by Octavian

too young to handle his uncle Caesar’s estates and rule

rules with Marc Antony - military uncle, and Marcus Lepidus - senate

murders Caesar’s killers

Augustus from Primaporta, marble

• made out of marble

• 6’8

• from Primaporta, Italy

  • built into a nitch in a wall (sculpture in the round, kind of)

  • wife lived in prima porta, lived out her life in her house there, she had this made

• No shoes = gods wear shoes

• dolphin reminds how he conquered egypt

• cupid represents julius cesear/ancestorys

• Dressed uniform military clothing - he was military + senator

• large altar where cow is sacrificed for Peic

• made for his wife

• on the road, eveyone can see it

• walls are filled with procession of the imperial

• on the bottom of monument: plant life and small nature - peace (pacification of enemies) and growth

Arch of Titus

• Rome, Italy

• Flavian - accomplished military men

• Triumph - triumph arch

• Inscription: senatus popalusque romanus - senate and people of rome

  • inscription = is official, publicly paid for by taxes

• titus died, becomes god

• spoil of jerusalem on a wall -

Colosseum (Flavian Amphitheatre)

• Rome, Italy

• Flavian period

• first large permanent apmphithetar

• built on an artificial lake made by Nero = giving land back to the people

• no fear of being overthrown

colosseum name comes from it being next to huge sun god as nero statue

greek affectation

Portrait of a Flavian Lady, marble

Forum and Column of Trajan, Rome (Imperial Fora), Trajanic

Pantheon, Rome, Hadrianic

Column of Antoninus Pius (esp. Apotheosis of Antoninus Pius and Faustina)

Basilica of Maxentius and Constantine (“Basilica Nova”), Rome

Arch of Constantine, Rome

Roman House plan (via Vitruvius)

Samnite House, Herculaneum (First Style)

Villa of P. Fannius Synistor at Boscoreale, near Pompeii (Second Style)

Garden Scene, from Villa of Livia, Primaporta (Second Style)

Villa of Agrippa Postumus at Boscotrecase, near Pompeii (Third Style)

House of the Vettii (Ixion Room), Pompeii (Fourth Style)