Art History Review

Here are a sample of slides to help you review the terms and concepts from class discussion and the readings.

The Ancient Roman World.

Patrician Carrying Portrait Busts of Two Ancestors. End of 1st century BCE or beginning of 1st century CE. Height 5’ 5”.

Verisitic vs. Idealizing

Head of an Old Man (1st century BCE) Republican portrait

Emperor Claudius (50 CE) Imperial portrait

Dorphorus, or Spear Bearer (450 BCE)

Imperial Roman marble copy of

Greek Bronze original

Emperor Claudius as Jupiter (50 CE)

Augustus of Primaporta. Early 1st century CE. Height 6’ 8”.

Colosseum, or Flavian Amphitheater (72-80 CE) Rome

Pantheon (118-125 CE) Rome

Pont Du Gard. Late 1st century BCE. Height above river 160’, width of road bed on lower arcade 20’.

Colossal marble statue of Constantine (315 CE)

The Tetrarchs. c. 300 CE.

Art and Religion

How would you describe the interplay between art and religion?

• How art explains the dogma of a religion• Art can confirm the faith of believers• An intermixture of art, religion and politics• Art facilitates religious ritual

Cubiculum of Leonis, Catacomb of Commodilla. Late 4th century.

Sarcophagus of Junius Bassus. c. 359. 4’ × 8’.

Jacopo Grimaldi. Interior of Old St. Peter's. 1619 copy of an earlier drawing.

Reconstruction Drawing, Old St. Peter's Basilica. c. 320–327; atrium added in later 4th century. Approx. 394’ long and 210’ wide..

Church of Santa Costanza. c. 350.

Santa Costanza (ca. 350 CE)Rome

Harvesting of grapes - example of syncretism

Sarcophagus of Constantina. c. 350. Height 7’ 5”.

Hagia Sophia (532-537 CE)Anthemius of Tralles and Isidorias of Miletus, ArchitectsIstanbul, Turkey

Saint Apollinare in Classe (533-49 CE)Near Ravenna, Italy

The Transfiguration of Christ with Sant’Apollinare, First Bishop of Ravenna. Mosaics: apse, 6th century;

wall above apse, 7th and 9th centuries; side panels, 7th century.

San Vitale (526-547 CE)Ravenna, Italy

Emperor Justinian and Theodora

Europe of the Early Middle Ages.

Visigothic Fibulae. 6th century. Height 5 5/8”. Found in Spain

Oseberg Ship Excavation, Norway, dating from c. 815–820.

Purse from the Sutton Hoo Burial Ship. First half of 7th century.

Hinged Clasp, from the Sutton Hoo Burial Ship. First half of 7th century. Length 5”.

Page with Man, Gospel Book of Durrow. Second half of 7th century. 9 5/8 × 6 1/8”.

Cross Page from the Lindisfarne Gospels. c. 715–720.13 3/8" × 9 7/16".

“Franks Casket” from Northumbria, England, c. 700. Whalebone(Note: Anglo-Saxon, not Frankish)

Carolingian Art

Palatine Chapel (786 CE) Aachen, Germany / Aix-la-ChapelleOdo of Metz, architectCharlemagne / Carolus Magnus, patron