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Pompeii Destroyed
Content: Aerial view of pompeii
Style: City
Importance: Left a legacy, even architecture shows power of Rome. |
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Colosseum Rome
Content: A gathering ground for entertainment
Style: A large architectural structure filled with arches |
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Fresco, City View, Boscoreale
Style: Inside a balcony looking out to a city scape
Content: Creates a impression of real space using diagnol lines and theater could be inspiration due to masks |
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House of the Vetti, Pompeii
Garden found in a roman city dwellers home. |
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| Forum and different offices? |
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civic center
1. police
2. council
3. legal/ financial admin |
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| most important building in Pompeii. It served the administration of justice, and for meetings of business men to discuss their affairs. The Basilica was one of the busiest places in Pompeii. |
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1. Political Organization = Federalism
2. Civil Law = Populus Romanus (People of Rome)
3. Latin Language
4. Rome the city ( Engineering, cement) |
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Augustus, Primaporta, Rome
descendant of venus, shown by cupid on calf.
he returned the standard through diplomacy |
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Altar of Augustan Peace, Rome
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dedicated to August after 3 yr diplomacy
shows the story of rome (past present and future)
represents fertility and bounty |
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Arch of Titus, Rome
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Commemorates a victory with formal procession
capture of jeruselum |
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Partheon, Hadrian Rome
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Commissioned by hadrian
refers to planitarium gods
cosmic ideology
used as court |
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| Difference between greek and roman art |
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greek = idealistic, a young athletic warrior man
roman = old wise soldier and based on real people, not myth. |
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Arch of Constantine, Rome
built in honor of Constantine for war victory
decorated with triumphal signal which was appropriated from earlier Roman monuments
brought old roman virtues of strength courage and piety |
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Basilica of Constantine, Rome
functioned as administrative of justice
gives off sense of imperial power and strength |
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Story of Jonah, Good Shepard, Catacomb Rome
Jonah in center and said he will lay down life for sheep.
tells story oh Jonah and the sea monster
Christian idea of christs death and resurrection
grape subols of paradise |
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Basilica of St. Peter, Rome
done representing vault of heaven |
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| Sarcophagus of Junius Bassus |
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| the upper part of the nave, choir, and transepts of a large church, containing a series of windows. It is clear of the roofs of the aisles and admits light to the central parts of the building. |
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| (in a cross-shaped church) either of the two parts forming the arms of the cross shape, projecting at right angles from the nave. |
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| Synagogue, Dura Europus, Syria |
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Hagia Sophia, Instanbul
created with mosaic tesserae = little pixels |
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| San Vitale, Ravenna Italy |
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Transfiguration of Chris Sant Apollinare, Ravenna
Importance:
Jesus takes disciples up montain
joined by elijah and moses
god speaks to jesus and validates his words
sheep = disciples
cross = symbolic transfiguration
bishops in pillar
heirachy: top - heaven
mid - holy land
bottom - earth
MESSAGE: follow jesus, you will go to heaven |
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| Virgin of Vladimir, Russia |
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| How is Byzantine art similar to roman art? |
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similar: style = classical
Diff: byz = christian |
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god projects all thing in real world.
if image shows divinity and follows artistic rules then part of divinity |
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| symbolic or suggestive rather than literally representational |
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| a candelabrum used in Jewish worship, especially one with eight branches and a central socket used at Hanukkah. |
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| a curved triangle of vaulting formed by the intersection of a dome with its supporting arches. |
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| the action of attacking or assertively rejecting cherished beliefs and institutions or established values and practices. |
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Page of the Qur'an
calligrpahy shows the word id divine and writing reflects that |
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Dome of the Rock, Jeruselum
importance:
statement that islam completes monotheistic religion |
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Great Mosque of Cordoba, Spain
built on site of church
built up teirs of arches |
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Court of the Lions, Alhambra Granada Spain
represents abundance and fertility
bc enclosed garden w/i palace |
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1. Profession of Faith
2. daily prayers
3. alms giving
4. fasting during ramadan
5. pilgrimage to mecca |
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| nonfigural, ornament, geometric |
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| niche - direction of mecca |
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| What was the model for all islamic mosques? |
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| Why is the tahj mahal an islamic building? |
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calligraphy
paradise
geometry |
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| what do the mosaic scenes on the great mosque of damacus depict? |
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| what geographic orientation do all mosques have? |
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| where was the worlds first uni? |
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| University of Al-Karaouine: Located in Fes, Morocco, this university originally was a mosque founded in 859 by Fatima al-Fihri, a woman |
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| according to qur'an, the cups of the failthful are made of what? |
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| vessels of silver and goblets of glass |
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