Roman Art And Architecture

High Empire and Late Empire

Reconstruction – interior of Basilica Ulpia

Forum of Trajan

Apses

Nave

Aisles

Aisles Entrance

Clerestory windows

• The last and largest Imperial Forum.

• Built by Trajan, but finished under Hadrian.

• The Greek architect, Apollodorus of Damascus was chosen

Trajan’s Column.

Roman soldiers building a wooden palisade at the seige of Sarmizethusa, the capital of the Dacian chief Decebalus.

Column of Trajan

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• 5 min.• Class quiz

Markets of Trajan

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• Comparable in size to a large modern shopping mall, had more than 150 individual shops on several levels.

• Constructed of concrete (pg.184), brick, with only occasional detailing on stone and wood.

• Why? Because there was a building code that was put into effect after a disastrous fire.

Pantheon exterior

reconstruction with forecourt

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• 8 min.• Class quiz

Painting by

Giovanni Pannini

Pantheon interior

Coffers

Equestrian statue of Marcus Aurelius

Mummy portraits from Faiyum, Egypt

EncausticRegional differences – with other sarcophagus

From Hawara, EgyptRoman Period, AD 100-120

Most mummy portraits that have survived have unfortunately become separated from the mummies to which they were attached. Because of this we rarely know the identities of the subjects.

• The subject of this portrait, painted in encaustic on lime-wood, appears to be a man in his fifties or sixties of strikingly Roman appearance. He is dressed in a tunic with a violet stripe, or clavus, and a thick folded mantle. The hair is brushed forward and cropped in the style of court portraits of the Trajanic period (AD 98-117). Pink has been used to highlight his nose and lips, and dark brown to indicate shading and the contours of the face. The portrait gives the impression of age, authority and austerity. These characteristics were very important in Rome, and are here represented in a very Roman manner.

Ludovisi Battle Sarcophagus – Battle of Romans & Barbarians

Mithras

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• 5 min.• Class quiz

Gardner’s 12th ed., p. 293

Sarcophagus of a philosopher

Arch of Constantine.

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Constantine flanked by statues of Hadrian & Marcus Aurelius

Distribution of largess

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• 10 min

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Distribution of largesse, Arch of Constantine