Roman Art and Archaeology: Week 4

Novios Plautios

the first “artists signature”; inscription on a brass bucket with feet (cista)

Praeneste/Palestrina

thriving city with princely tombs, brought under Roman control in 338 BCE; home of the Sanctuary of Fortuna

barrel vault

a curving covered arch used in Roman architecture made possible through the use of concrete

opus vermiculatum

the placement of small stones to create/emphasize a larger image

peristyle

a more stylized courtyard addition to Roman houses involving columns

lost wax

a method of making bronze statues that uses wax to make a mold, which is then used to melt the wax by molten bronze

Delos

a Greek island frequented by Roman merchants; lots of elevated architecture that inspired wave of Roman housing

Villa of the Mysteries

Roman villa in Pompeii that appears to be Grek inspired, but upon further inspection, is wholly Roma

plaster casts

soft cement + water casts that dried to mold to a figure/ used to recreate highly desirable works of art for personal collections

Pasiteles Duo

Pasiteles Duo, (San Ildefonso Group) from Rome, marble ca. 50-25 BCE

Imagines

suovetaurilia

the Roman ritual sacrifice of animals :(

eclecticism

the deliberate mixing of new and different cultural forms

Fig. 5-7 Head of an old man, from Osimo, mid-first century bce. Marble, life size. Palazzo del Municipio, Osimo

Fig. 5-9 Man with portrait busts of his ancestors, from Rome, late first century bce. Marble, 5′ 5″ high. Centrale Montemartini, Musei Capitolini, Rome

Fig. 2-20 Restored view of the Sanctuary of Fortuna (looking north), Palestrina, ca. 120–100 BCE

Fig. 2-22 The Nile, mosaic floor from the Sanctuary of Fortuna, Palestrina, ca. 100 BCE

Fig. 4-8 Plan of the House of the Faun, Pompeii, begun first half of second century BCE

Fig. 4-10 Alexander Mosaic, late second or early first century BCE floor mosaic in the House of the Faun, Pompeii. Copy of *Battle of Issos*, a panel painting by Philoxenos of Eretria, ca. 310 BCE

Fig. 4-18 Dionysiac mystery rites, Second Style mural paintings in room 5 of the Villa \n of the Mysteries, Pompeii, ca. 60–50 BCE

Fig. 5-2 Stater of Titus Quinctius Flamininus, struck in Greece, 197–196 BCE. Gold

Fig. 5-3 Battle of Pydna, two details of the frieze of the Victory Monument of Aemilius Paullus, Delphi, Greece, 168 BCE

“The Boxer”, Greek Bronze, Esquiline Hill, Rome, mid 2nd c BCE