Roman Forum Reconstruction

Date: 6th century Bc

Def: Roman,a roman public form used for politics

- it housed the Curia and Contium and Vestal Virgins temple

- built between teh marshy valley of the palletine hills and the Capitaline hills

- Augustus enlarged and completed the basilica Julia as well as teh new senate house named Curia Julia

Cleopatra

Date: 69 - 30 BC

Def: Egytian

- her beauty is a controversay, it was said that she wasnt attractive but had a gift to get men

- had relationships with Marc Antony and Caesar

- she was defeated at battle with Marc Antony

Greek Theater

Date: 5th Century

Def: Greek, a place for plays

- usually in the shape of a semi circle containing an Orchestra

- was a place to honor dionysus

- heavily influenced Dorothy Arzner, espically with Antigone

Roman Theater

Date: 55 BC Theather of Pompey

Def: Roman, usually built out of wood so it could be burnt at the end of the festivel

- the first permanent theater was created of stone

- it was circular and could seat 80,000

- Theater of Pompey was decribed as a monumental stairway to teh Temple of Venus Victrix

Circus Maximus

Date: 7th to 7th

Def: Roman, a place for chariot races

- had a spina down the middle

- the spina had 7 moveable eggs and doplhans to count the race laps

- could seat 385,000

- had 12 starting gates

Ben Hur

Date: 1925 film 1880 Book

Def: American, a slave resuced by a king

- written by Lew Wallace

- he was teh governer of the Arizona territory

- second best seller next to the bible

Castrum

Date: 4th to 4th

Def: Roman military camp

- had their own hospital and sleep quaters

- the two main roads were the Villa Principales and Praetorian

- first to use bunk beds

Prima Porta Augustus

Date: 31BC to 14AD

Def: Roman, a staute of Augustus

- had cupid at the bottom to show love and a dolpah to show innocence, a symbol of venus

- influence by Polykleitos

- found at Prima Porta

Roman Empire Expansion

Date: 2nd Century

Def: Roman, expanded from Spain to Africa to Iraq

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Forum of AUgustus and Temple of Mars Ultor

Date: 20-2 BC

Def: Roman, Augustus avenging the murder of Caesar

- began 5 years after it was vowed

- built to house a temple honoring mars

- provided a place for legal preoceedings

- built by Augustus

Ara Pacis Augustae

Date: 13-9 BC

Def: roman, Monument of Augustus's campaign

- contained teh Relief Ara Pacis Augustae

- excated in 19th century by BenitoMussolini

- panels depicted th eimportant roman people such as Augustus

Roman Bath Complex

Date: 1st c. BC - 4th c. AD

Def: roman, a batheing complex that served as vast recreation, communiy and social centers

- examples are 9 AD Pompeii and 81 Ad Titus

- had a fridgidarium (cold water) and a caldarium (hot water)

- had an underground heating system to keep warm

- had a war room that served as a buffer between teh hot and cold water

Nero

Date: 54-69 AD

Def: Roman, the last of the Julio-Claudian emperor

- forced to committe sucide

- known for being crazy

- famous for his buildings of his golden house (domus aurea)

Vespasian

Date:69-79 AD reign

Def:Roman, part of the Flavian Dynasty

- built the Colossium formerly known as teh Flavian Amphitheater

- known as emporer of teh people

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Colosseum

Date: 1st - 5th century AD**

Def: Roman, built by Vespasin

- seats 50,000 people

-  the Flavian Ampetheater was teh orginal name

- largest of all roman ampetheaters

Gladiators

date: 1st BC til 4th century AD

Def: roman, men trained to fight against men or animals

- a sector is a heavy armed gladiator

- a gladiator could gain great populartity for this and retire happily

- originally prisioners of war condemed to death

Mt. Vesuvius and Pompeii, Forum of Pompeii

Date: 79 AD, eruption

Def: Roman, 

- triggered a romantic age

- rediscovered in 16th century

- the forum had no roof and people could go there to worship Apollo

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Roman House

Date: 8th Century Bc

Def: Roman, a typical Roman residence 

- included a bedroom, dining room, garden, shop, and an atrium

- examples can be found in Pompeii

- the wealthy and poor lived seperatly: th epoor were above or beind teh house

Villa Rotunda

Date: 1570 for teh Villa,

Def: Italian Renaissance, a villa in Venice Italy

- used clear proportions and had mathermatical harmony

- the artitect was Andrea Palladio

- the central dome was with temple facades

Statue of George Washington

date: 1840

Def: American, a statue of George Washington

- it was a neo-classical style

- first famous AMerican sculpture done by Horatio Greenough

- people were freaked out by the nakedness and didnt appreciate the connection to classicalism until later

- portrayed as a Greek god or a Jupiter figure

Thomas Jefferson

Date: 1743-1826

Def: third american president

- a linguist in spanish, french and italian

- helped father the nations library by haulign 10 wagons of books to it

- help write the declaration of independence

- Monticello

Montecello

date:1770's, American

Def: house created by Thomas Jefferson

- he inherritated the land then started building on working on teh house

- located in northern VA

- had a simple interior

- an example of Jerffersonian style

Osterley Park House

Date: 1761

Def: English, a Rococo mixed style with Roman wall paintings

- the architect/ interior designer was Robert Adams

- he was scottish and created an Adamesque state

-considered neoclassical and used leaves to decorate

- helped discover and show that the Roman architecture was more varied that previously thought

Bauhaus

Date: 1919

Def: A building created by the German artitect Walter Gropius

- the archtitecture is cell like

- all the rooms look alike

Johnson Wax Factory

date: 1937

def: style was depression modern style and teh architect was Frank Wright

- located in wisconsin

- inside there is a both in style showing neoclassism and depression modern style

- all desks were blonde and curvilinear

- a stream lined style

EUR

date: 1930

def: italian aritect was Marcello Piacentini

- style was influenced by the Depression modern style

- modeled after the Roman forum

- celebrated the 2000th birthday of Augustus

- Influenced by Pompeii

Adolf Hitler

Date: 1889-1945

Def: the German leader during WW2 but an AUstrian born

- associated with teh rise of Facisim

- had an aritect named Albert Speer teh 2nd

- wantd to be an artist

- responible for teh Holocaust and Nazis

Zeppelinfeld

date: 1937

def: a german building under Hilters reign

- the Artitect was Speer the second, hitler personal artitect

- located in Munich Germany

- shows the influence of brutalism and classicism

- contains swastikas

Thingplatz

date: 1933-1945

def: german theater designed by Speer

- propanganda films were shown here

- very similar to Greek Theater but has a low stage like romans

- developed by Joesph Glober a place to rally the youth, Magizines handed out

Leni Riefinstahl

date: 1902 - 2003

def: a german film director, Triumph of the Will

- Hitlers primary film director

- opens film with hitler coming down from clouds

- influenced by Busby Berkeley

- made movie about women accomplishing amazing things

Josephin Peladin

date: 1890

def: a french symbolist, the leader of the rosicrucians symbolist movement

- these followers were known for doing opmium

- praised myth and allegory that went back to Romantic and classical times

- Femme fatale (dangerous women/ creature)

Art of Cresses of The Sphinx

date: 1896

def: a symbolist style in Belgian

- artitect is Fernand Khopff

- shows a Femme Fatale

- influenced by classisism

- half naked fellow is androgynous has a septor being inspired by women, muse

The Fountain

date: 1917

def: a dada style art in american/ french culture

- artist is marcel duchamp

- it is teh anti-art movement

- usually work off something that is already made

- another axample is L.H.O.O.Q

Persistence of Memory

date: 1929

def: spanish surrealism art

- artist is Salvador Dali

- common charastics are timeless, airless, childlike, ideas of a dream

- ants represents fear

- inspired by the cliffs in the background

The Echo

date: 1943

def: Belgian surrealism and classicism art

- artist is Paul Delvaux

- shows timeless, sizeless and airless qualities

- teh women influenced argentos films

Herbert Hoover

date: 1929-1933

def: an american president 31st

- known for his Laisez faire approachs to government

- middleclass families moved into Hoovervilles (insult to his name)

- wasnt a media savy president

Franklin D. Roosevelt

date: 1933 - 1945

def: 32 president

- came into office during the Great depression

 created the New Deal with teh help on Congress

- surrvived from polio and confined to a wheelchair

- known for fireside chats

- new deal acts consisted of teh Nrp, AAA, CCC, etc

Leo Baekeland and Bakelite

date: 1907 it was created but prefected in 1920's

def: american culture and invented by a Belgian scientist

- used for radios, jewerely

- not a conductor of heat

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Art Deco

date: 1925

def: L'Exposition des Arts Decroatifs, Parisian

- became popular in Expositions in Paris

- influenced by cubism

- used modern materials and elegant stones for jewels

Preiss Clock

date: 1930's

def: part of the art deco period in germany

- designed by Preiss

- shows the cult of the female form and the stepped look

- made from fine materials like ivory

Raymond Lowey

date: 1930's

def: an American artist for Depression Modern style

- created the fornt of broadway

- updated the Coca-Cola bottle

- teh depression modern style influenced ocean liners, trains, automobiles

Eddie Cantor and Roman Scandals

date: 1933 film

def: an american actor during teh depression

- the film showed both-and-both style along with teh depression modern style

- he was a figure of hope during teh depression

- first white person to perform with a black actor

- usually did teh childish role