Art and Architecture of Antique Rome

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Art and Architecture of Antique Rome(800 BCE -
550 CE)

• Hon 197 Eurasian
• and
• North African Civilizations

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Ritual and Space

• 800 - 600 BCE

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Function of Roman Rituals

• Cultivation of their Gods
• Life of their Family
• Ordering of their Community

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Function of Roman Priests

• Lead the Prayers and Incantations
• Make the Sacrifices to Gods
• Seek Signs (ala auspices) from their Gods
  (superstition)

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Palatine Hill Hut Miniature Terracotta Model
8th cent. BCE Burial Site
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Roman Empire ca. 117 CE
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Old Rome

• 600 - 200 BCE

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Etruscan-Roman Trinity

• Ius Pater Iuppiter Jupiter
• Juno
• Minerva

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Ficoroni CistofNovios Plautios300 BCE
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Regia at Roman Forum Residence of Etruscan Kings
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Temple of Minerva Veii(515 - 490 BCE)
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Temple of Fortuna Virilis Portunus(2nd - mid 1st
cent BCE)
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Hellenistic Rome

• 200 - 50 BCE

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Altar of Domitius Ahenobarbus
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Pompeii House of Mysteries
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Basilica of Maxentius
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Vaults
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Aquaduct
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Aquaducts
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The Early Empire

• 50 BCE - 50 CE

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Basilica Porticus Aemilia
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Theatre of Marcellus
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Ara Pacis Augustae
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Graecia capta ferum victorem cepit et
artisIntulit agresti Latio(Horace, Epistularum
2.1.156-7)
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Roman Virtues

• Gravitas
• Humanitas
• Auctoritas

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Roman Roads
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Layers of the road
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Roman Road
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Roman Bridge
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Walls in Pompeii
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The High Empire

• 50 - 250 CE

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Roma
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Colosseum, from street
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Colosseum, aerial view
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Pantheon
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Frigidarium
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Roman Metropollises

• Rome
• Antioch
• Alexandria

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The Late Empire

• 250 - 550 CE

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Palace of Spalato
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Basilica of Constantine
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Byzantine Empire11May 330 CE 29 May 1453 CE)
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Christian Roman Empire ca. 565 CE
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Haggia Sophia
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Haggia Sophia Interior Icon