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Quiz 2
Turner Class
46
Art History
Undergraduate 1
10/27/2011

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Name: Porta Augusta

Date: Etruscan 700 BCE-100 BCE

Country: Italy

Material: Stone

Style: Anticipates use of the Roman arch

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Name: Reconstruction of an Etruscan Temple

Date: Etruscan 700-100 BCE

Material: Stone

Style: Resembles Greek temples, post-and-lintel, entablature similar to frieze, "tuscan order" columns simliar to doric order

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Name: Apollo

Artist: Vulca

Dates: Etruscan 700-100 BCE

Country: Italy

Material: Terra Cotta

Style: Archaic smile, clothed in robe, dynamic pose rather than perfectly balanced, energetic

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Name: Dancers and Diners

Location: Tomb of the Triclinium

Dates: Etruscan 700-100 BCE

Country: Italy

Style: Dark men, light women, women more integrated than in Greek world, animated, happy, banquet, colorful

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Name: Burial Chamber

Location: Tomb of the Reliefs

Dates: Etruscan 700-100 BCE

Country: Italy

Material: Stone

Style: Resembles a home, made in relief and painted,

fittings formed of stucco - slow-drying type of plaster

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Name: Sarcophagus from Cerveteri

Dates: Etruscan 700-100 BCE

Country: Italy

Material: Terra Cotta

Style: Archaic smiles, pointed beards, braided hair (all Greek features), buried together, marriage bed or dining couch, happy afterlife

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Name:Head of a Man (Lucius Junius Brutus)

Dates: Etruscan 700-100 BCE

Country: Italy

Material: Bronze, eyes of painted ivory

Style: portrait, painted ivory, very realistic, early look at what Roman art would look like

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Name: Aulus Metellus

Dates: Roman Republic 509 BCE - 27 CE

Country: Italy

Material: Bronze

Style: not naked, means business, toga and leather boots (typical of Roman senator), known as The Orator, persuasive

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Name: Pont du Gard

Dates: Roman Republic 509 BCE - 27 CE

Country: France

Material: Stone

Style: Roman round arches, Romans bring amenities to cities they take over, brought water to the citizens of Nimes

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Name: Temple, perhaps dedicated to Portunus

Dates: Roman Republic 509 BCE - 27 CE

Country: Italy

Material: Stone

Style: street level has changed, Ionic, pediment, axial alighnment, engaged columns - built into the wall, pseudo peripteral - looks peripteral but not

 

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Name: Augustus of Primaporta

Dates: Early Empire 27 - 96 CE

Country:Italy

Material: Marble

Style: Propaganda, probably a god b/c barefoot, authoritative, never ages, contrapposto

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Name: Ara Pacis Augustae (Altar of Augustan Peace)

Dates: Early Empire 27 - 96 CE

Country: Italy

Material: Marble

Style: Processional friezes on exterior reflect Ionic frieze on the Parthenon, however, the figures are real and in real scenes rather than idealized

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Name: Imperial Precession

Location: Relief on south side of the Ara Pacis

Dates: Early Empire 27 - 96 CE

Country: Italy

Material: Stone

Style: Relief, real people rather than idealized people, true scenes, deep relief

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Name: Gemma Augustea

Dates: Early Empire 27 - 96 CE

Country: Italy

Material: Stone

Style: Propaganda, low relief, lots of gods imagery and stuff that makes the guy with the halo awesome

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Name: Plan and Reconstruction Drawing, House of the Silver Wedding

Dates: Early Empire 27-96 CE

Country: Italy

Style: Roman style home, atriums, gardens,

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Name: Peristyle garden

Location: House of the Vettii

Dates: Early Empire 27 - 96 CE

Country: Italy

Style: Set up to be seen from entrance, straight on, open roof

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Name: Wall painting in the "Ixion Room"

Location: House of the Vettii

Dates: Early Empire

Country: Italy

Style: Paintings apperar to recede into the wall, illusion

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Name: Inititation Rites of the Cult of Bacchus

Location: Villa of the Mysteries

Dates: Early Empire 27 - 96 BCE

Country: Italy

Material: Wall Painting

Style: Encrustacean - painting along bottom edge, look like covered in marble, 2nd style - illusion of depth, stage in wall

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Name: Cityscape

Location: A bedroom in the House of Publius Fannius Synistor

Dates: Early Empire 27 - 96 CE

Country: Italy

Material: Wall painting

Style: 2nd style, attempt on perspective, colorful, theater masks signal that might be inspired by theater

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Name: Arch of Titus

Dates: Early Empier 27 - 96 CE

Country: Italy

Material: Concrete and white marble

Style: held a lost statue, entablature reads that senators and people of rome erectred the arch, roman round arch, efficient way of building with concrete

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Name: Spoils from the Temple of Solomon

Location: Relief in the passageway of the Arch of Titus

Dates: Early Empire 27 - 96 CE

Country: Italy

Material: Stone

Style: Shows victory over Jerusalem, looting from temple, parade, real scene, looks like how they did running through the temple

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Name: Colosseum

Dates: Early Empire 27 - 96 CE

Country: Italy

Material: Stone

Style: Order (from top to bottom) Tuscan, Ionic, Corinthian, Corinthian pilasters

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Name: Young Flavian Woman

Dates: Early Empire 27 - 96 CE

Country: Italy

Material: Marble

Style: Flavian hair, idealized, hard lines in jaw and nose contrast smooth lips and eyes

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Name: Basilica Ulpia

Dates: High Empire 96 - 192 CE

Country: Italy

Material:

Style: basilica - a large rectangular building with an extensive interior space, adaptable for a variety of governmental functions, court of law

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Name: Column of Trajan

Dates: High Empire 96 - 192 CE

Country: Italy

Material: Marble

Style: Propaganda, displays Trajan as wonderful, stories kept small so important figures can be large, pictorial narratives of the Dacian campaigns

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Name: Pantheon

Dates: High Empire 96 - 129 CE

Country: Italy

Material:

Style: temple to the Olympian gods, street level has changed, rotunda - circular room

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Name: Dome of the Pantheon

Dates: High Empire 96 - 129 CE

Country: Italy

Style: oculus - central opening (lets light in), eyes drawn upwards by coffers - sunken panels

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Name: The Canal (Canopus)
Location: Hadrian's Villa

Dates: High Empire 96 - 129 CE

Country: Italy

Material: Stone

Style: Varying semicircular and straight entablature, Greek caryatids replicated, pleasant and happy

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Name: Equestrian statue of Marcus Aurelius

Dates: High Empire 96 - 129 CE

Country: Italy

Material: Bronze

Style: Mistaken as Constantine so not melted down, curly hair and beard matches Greek philosophers, rhetorical speech lookin', horse didn't look too small compared to rider (at least not for their time)

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Name: Commodus as Hercules

Location: Esquiline Hill

Dates: High Empire 96 - 129 CE

Country: Italy

Material: Marble

Style: References to Hercules = Nemean lion skin and head, the club, the golden apples from Garden of the Hesperides, propaganda, looks like father

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Name: Caracalla

Dates: Late Empire 192 - 476 CE

Country: Italy

Material: marble

Style: Emperor, military iron-fisted guy, mean, X across face

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Name: Baths of Caracalla

Dates: Late Empire 192 - 476 CE

Country: Italy

Style: Gift from emperor, symmetrical, used furnace heaters below the surface for showers

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Name: The Tetrarchs

Dates: Late Empire 192 - 476 CE

Country: Italy

Material: Porphyry

Style: rule of four, all identical but younger are shaven and older have beards, geometrical shapes and uneven proportions, propaganda - we're united

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Name: Audience Hall of Constantius Chlorus (The Basilica)

Dates: Late Empire 192 - 476 CE

Country: Germany

Material: Stone

Style: later used for Christian church, directional focus, heating from underground, windows make the building look bigger (larger than life)

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Name: Audience Hall of Constantius Chlorus (The Basilica)

Dates: Late Empire 192 - 476 CE

Country: Germany

Material: Brick

Style: large size and simple plan, imposing buildings that impress

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Name: Arch of Constantine

Dates: Late Empire 192 - 476

Country: Italy

Material: Stone

Style: covered in sculpture, not all in same time, transferred Roman values of strength, courage, and piety

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Name: Hadrian Hunting Boar and Sacrificing to Apollo; Constantine Addressing the Roman People in the Roman Forum

Location: Arch of Constantine

Dates: 192 - 476

Country: Italy

Material: Stone

Style: Relief, show Constantine's victory and symbolize his strength and generosity, relief along bottom follows tetrachal art, figures pushed into foreground, later picked up by the Christian church, secular

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Name: Constantine the Great

Location: Basilica of Maxentius and Constantine

Dates: 192 - 476 CE

Country: Italy

Material: Marble

Style: combines Roman portraiture with tetrachal abstract qualities, heavy jaw, hooked nose, and jutting chin made symmetrical and then eyes and eyebrows made to match, giving a sense of perfection and strength

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Name: Good Shepherd, Orants, and Story of Jonah

Location: Catacomb of Saints Petro and Marcellino

Dates: Early Christian 1st - 4th century

Country: Italy

Material: paint on ceiling

Style: Good shepherd in center (Jesus), Jonah and the whale story told in lunettes, people later interpreted this story as Christ's death and resurrection, orants (good christians) in between

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Name: Old Saint Peter's basilica

Dates: Imperial Christian 4th - 6th century

Country: Rome

Style: Christians believed St. Peter buried here, study the layout

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Name: Church of Santa Sabina

Dates: Imperial Christian 4th - 6th century

Country: Italy

Material: Brick

Style: follows Old St. Peter plan, inside spectacular

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Name: Interior, Church of Santa Sabina

Dates: Imperial Christian 4th - 6th century

Country: Italy

Style: Spolia - materials from old buildings are recycled, round arches on columns, marble, it's all pretty and shit

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Name: Church of Santa Costanza

Dates: Imperial Christian 4th - 6th century

Country: Italy

Style: Central plan, tall rotunda with ambulatory - encircling barrell-vaulted passage,

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Name: Sarcophagus of Junius Bassus

Dates: Imperial Christian 4th - 6th century

Country: Italy

Material: Marble

Style: several different stories from the bible, split into two registers using columns and entablatures, christ in center on top and bottom, top as emperor, bottom as earthly

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Name: Oratory of Galla Placidia

Dates: Imperial Christian 4th - 6th century

Country: Italy

Material: brick

Style: oratory - small chapel, cruciform - cross shape, one of earliest surviving Christian structures in Ravenna, inside symbolizes walk into the supernatural

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Name: The Good Shepherd

Location: Oratory of Galla Placidia

Dates: Imperial Christian 4th - 6th century

Country: Italy

Material: mosaic

Style: Christianity now legal and state religion so Jesus made in mosaic, the richest known medium of wall decoration, Jesus now looks more like Jesus we know today as compared to the earlier Good Shepherd, he's now an adult with purple and gold robes, staff is a cross, halo

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