Chapter 10 Slide Quiz

Slide Quiz Chapter 10 Study Guide

Date Mt. Vesuvius erupted: 79 A.D.

The Four Styles of Roman painting

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Characteristics

Bracket Dates

Republican: 509 B.C. - 27 B.C.

Early: 27 B.C. - 96 B.C.

High: 96 B.C. - 192 A.D.

Late Empire: 192 A.D. - 337 A.D.

Republican

10-1 Temple of Fortuna Virilis @ 75 B.C.

Influenced by the Greeks and Etruscans (absorbed 2 influences) and fused it to Roman architecture.

Etruscan:

High podium with frontal axis, only accesibly via stairway

Freestanding columns confined to deep porch

Greece:

Stone strucutre overlaid with stucco

Ionic columns

Roman: Pseudoperipteral temple.

10-6 Head of Roman patrician @ 75-50 B.C

Major function was to show off aristocratic patricians' lineage at home, in their cupboards.

The portrait were almst always of men in advanced age, an accurate record of their distinctive features.

Veristic portrait that shows his strict personality.

10-11 Aerial view of the amphitheater, Pomepeii, Italy

10-15 Dionysiac mystery frieze, Second Style wall paintings in Room 5 of the Villa of the Mysteries

Showed women performing Dionysiac rites.

Figures interact around the corners of the room.

10-16 Second Style wall paintings from Cubiculum M of Publius Fannius Synistor

10-17 Gardenscape, Second Style wall painting, from the Villa of Livia

10-21 Fourth Style wall paintings in the Ixion Room (Triclinium P) of the House of the Vettii

10-23 Portrait of a husband and wife, wall painting from House VII,2,6

10-24 Still life with peaches, detail of a Fourth Style wall painting

Early

10-25 Portrait of Augustus as general @ 20 B.C.

Has Classical Greek art influence, like Polykleitos's doryphoros.

Adresses his troops in Aule Metele style.

Has facial features of Polykleitan style.

Cupid at his feet (son of Venus).

Advertised Augustus as song of a god, with youth and immortality. A godlike leader who never aged.

10-27 Ara Pacis Augustae

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