Looking Back to the Golden Age of Greece
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Looking back to the Golden age of Greece:
A procession of the Imperial Family
Unknown artist
Sense of Three dimensionality
The feet are really coming out to the viewer
All portraits- identifiable
These look like children and act like children (unlike greek)
Public Building Projects: Feasts of Engineering and Masterpieces of Propaganda
AQUEDUCT
helps mold opinion in positive way of the roman empire by filling needs of people
PONT-DU-GARD- (bridge of the guarded river) 100 gallon per water per person in Nimes, France
Water created by gravity so it has to be inclined the whole way
3 arcades
Pompeii – the cities of Vesuvius and painting in ancient Rome
Ash buried the town
10/18 feet
imprints of the body, and the art that was there
rediscovered in 18th century
Fresco- wall painted in fresco (The wall is wet – fresh plaster and then painted in water based pigment) – paint begins part of the wall instead of a layer sitting on top of the wall.
Three Zone Division of the Wall – Dado (base) , Central Zone, Narrow horizontal zone at top
Four Pompeian Styles – 1st,2st,3rd,4th
First style- An imitation of Marble
– Trompe I’oeil (trick the eye)
– Walls meant to look like marble/stone
Second style- Creating the illusion of a 3D world
-divided into three zone as always
– dissolved visual look to make it look like it opens to the outside
– made to make the room look bigger
– Cubiculum- bedroom, a little claustrophobic ( therefore, painted this way)
– One point perspective – not very accurate but allows you to create a sense of depth
Third style- The wall is a wall
– Asserting the wall exists
– Monochromatic
– much more decorative than naturalist (not illusionistic either)
Fourth Style- Combining earlier styles
– Busy, Chaotic, Composition
– Elaborated confusion
– Monochromatic panels, paintings that look like its hung, a little 3Dness
ROMAN ARCHITECTURAL ORDERS
Corinthian – the leaf coming out feature is part of this
Composite order – Doric and Iconic mixed
Tuscan
The Colosseum: Symbol of the New Grandeur of Rome
(Roman Imperial art. 27 BCE-200 CE)
– Flavian Dynasty:
Colosseum, also known as The Flavian Amphitheater
50,000 Spectator
relies on concrete
Shell of stone over concrete
A huge number of entries (76) – want to get people in and out of stadiums orderly
Don’t have people from diff classes mixing
Flavian Portraiture: People of alll ages and types
highest classes of statues showing – imitating high fashion from back then
Drilled to create curls
Triumphal arches: Public