9 AP Art History Unit 2: Ancient Rome--ID & Visual Analysis

title & siting: Alexander Mosaic (from the House of Faun, Pompeii, Rome) artist & culture: unknown (Piloxenos of Eretria, Helen of Egypt) Republican Roman style: Roman copy, Hellenistic Greek date of creation: 100 BCE materials & technique: tessearae, four-color, floor mosaic form & content: Alexander Darius spears, chariots, battle, illusion of depth chiaroscuro, overlapping, foreshortening, dynamic

title & siting: House of the Vettii (Pompeii, Roman artist & culture: Roman Republic Rome style: Republican/Imperial Roman date of creation: 2nd Century BCE, rebuilt 67-69 CE materials & technique: stone, fresco form & content: axial symmetry, few windows, atrium, impluvium, cubicula, peristyle garden, frescoes mythological and genre scenes

title & siting: Colosseum Flavian Amphitheater (Imperial Rome) artist & culture: unknown, Imperial Rome style: Imperial Roman date of creation: 72-80 CE materials & technique: travertine (facing), marble, & brick, concrete form & content: 50,000 seats, 76 exits, barrel vaults, groin vaults, arches, engaged columns, Tuscan, Ionic, Corinthian, flattened Corithian, velarium, hypogeum, Nero colossus

title & siting: Forum of Trajan (Imperial Rome) artist & culture: Apollodorus of Damascus, Imperial Rome style: Imperial Roman date of creation: 06-112CE (forum and markets), 113CE (column), Forum of Trajan materials & technique: brick, concrete form & content: symmetry, barrel vaults, groin vaults Forum: central plaza, stoa-like buildings, Ulpian basilica: double colonnade, nave, two apses, clerestory, timber roof Trajan Markets: semi-circular, 150 shops

title & siting: Pantheon (Rome) artist & culture: style: date of creation: 118-125CE materials & technique: concrete dome construction, stone and brick facing form & content: axial symmetry, height equals width, squares and circles theme, two pediments, Oculus, rotunda, portico, Corinthian columns, coffered ceiling, cupola walls

title & siting: Head of a Roman Patrician (funerary altar) artist & culture: unknown, Republican Rome style: Roman Republican date of creation: 75-50CE materials & technique: carved marble, veristic portrait form & content: realistic depiction of elderly features, emphasis on wisdom and experience, portrait

title & siting: Augustus of Prima Porta (Livia’s villa) artist & culture: , Imperial Rome style: Early Imperial Roman date of creation: 1st Century CE materials & technique: carved marble form & content: Idealized, Doryphoros-like contrapossto, larger-than-life, unfinished back, barefoot, breastplate (Pax Romana), judge’s robes, right arm like orator, cupid on dolphin at base

title & siting: Ludovisi Battle Sarcophagus artist & culture: unkown, Imperial Rome style: Later Imperial date of creation: 250CE materials & technique: marble haute-relief form & content: horoor vacui, Romans v. Goths, dynamic poses, emotion, complex composition

title & siting: Column of Trajan (Trajan forum, Imperial Rome) artist & culture: unknown, Imperial Rome style: Imperial Roman date of creation: 113CE materials & technique: marble bas-relief form & content: continuous frieze, 23 registers, narrative, Trajan's Dacian campaigns, detail, oak wreath base