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BYU Exam 3
Study guide for Exam 3 for Mark Johnson's ARTHC 202 class.
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Art History
Undergraduate 1
11/09/2013

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Column of Trajan, Rome, A.D. 113  (10-44)  EARLY ROMAN IMPERIAL

-dedicated in the year 113

-door at bottom.. base as well and then a 100 roman foot tall column

-band wraps around it

-statue of st peter on the top.. used to be Trajan

 functions:

 

1) inscription above door talks about how in order to build this complex they had to remove dirt as high as the column.

2) It's a victory monument.. story of conquest of province of Daecia

-pole was placed when the Roman's won a battle and they would pile up armor from the enemy

3) Inside the door in the bottom stores Trajan's ashes… served as his tomb.

 

Inscription on column tells a story.. it's like a scroll wrapping around it with text that tells a particular story. These stories are based on Trajan's own writings. 

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Pantheon  EARLY IMPERIAL

Rome

(10-49 to 10-51)

       Pantheon: dedicated to all the gods

       Up on a podium and a deep porch

       Dome

       142 feet tall and wide

  

       5 rows of Coffers gives texture and visual interest with 28 in each row, makes the dome look higher.

       28 constitutes a month.

       4 represents the earth (elements)

       Made out of brick (plain)

       Greek was concentrated on the outside

 

       Romans focus on the inside not the outside

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Column Base of Antoninus Pius     EARLY IMPERIAL

by Apotheosis and Decursio

(10-57, 10-58)

       Cremation frees the soul of the body and lets the soul rise up to heaven

       Apotheosis means becoming a god.

       Decursio is the precession of soldiers honoring the dead (going around in a circle)

 

       View point is bird’s eye and created some ground for each figure

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Portrait of Caracalla  LATE IMPERIAL

 (10-64)

       Puts a lot of people to death

       Very mean person (shown in sculpture, angry looking) creates an X through his face

       Never smiled so a scowl etched in his face

 

       Assassinated by his own soldiers

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Tetrarchs

Late Imperial Period (10-73)

       Made a co-emperor with a junior emperor each, split the area into 4 parts.

       Carved out of Porphyry (purple associated with emperor)

       All the figures look the same except for beards.

       Gesture of Harmony

 

       Divine things look abstract

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Palace of Diocletian 

 

Split, Croatia

Late Imperial Period (10-74)

       Built for protection and the view

       Façade of the palace looks like the front of a temple

       Emperor is “divine” while alive

 

       Palace is like a temple because the emperor is a god

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Acrolithic Statue of Constantine 

Late Imperial Period (10-77)

       In the apse is a huge sculpture of Constantine

       Very large eyes (style)

Constantine is the first emperor to embrace Christianity

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Good Shepherd and Jonah 

ceiling, catacomb of SS. Pietro and Marcellino, Rome,

Late Antiquity/Early Christian Art (11-5)

       Shelves for bodies

       Underground

       Body wrapped in linen with perfumes

       Marble covering the shelf with description

       Rooms for families or groups

       Had paintings and art

       Tufa stone covered with plaster and painted on

       Arm raised portraits (praying)

       Andimion (Jonah) symbolizes eternal rest

       Good Shepherd looking over them

 

       Pictorial Prayers

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Sarcophagus of Junius Bassus  

Late Antiquity/Early Christian Art (11-7)

       Organized by rows and columns

       Small looking statues

       Christ with no beard (youthful) with peter and paul

       Standing on the sky god (in the heaven)

 

       Christ as earthly ruler

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Old St. Peter’s Basillica 

Rome- atrium, nave, aisles, transept, apse, clerestorey

Late Antiquity/Early Christian Art (11-9)

       Tomb of Peter in the Apse

       Over 300 feet long

       Atrium had a fountain

       Memorial building

 

       Cemetery underneath

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Santa Sabina

Rome

Late Antiquity/Early Christian Art (11-10)

       “Every Sunday church”

       Reused columns

       Christ will appear in the east, anticipation on Christ

 

       Men on Left, Women on right

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