Chapter 6 - Etruscan and Roman Art

6.1    Explore the various ways Romans embellished the walls and floors of their houses with illusionistic painting in fresco and mosaic.
6.2    Trace the development and use of portraiture as a major artistic theme for the ancient Romans.
6.3    Examine the ways that Etruscan funerary art celebrates the vitality of human existence.
6.4    Investigate how knowledge of Roman advances in structural technology furthers our understanding of Roman civic architecture.

IMAGES (be able to identify these images by title, general time period, medium, and culture of origin)

• 6-2 Porta Augusta
• 6-3 Model (A) and Plan (B) of an Etruscan Temple
• 6-4 Master Sculptor Vulca (?), Apollo
• 6-7 Dancers and Diners, Tomb of the Tricilinium
• 6-8 Burial Chamber, Tomb of the Reliefs
• 6-9 Reclining Couple on a Sarcophagus from Cerveteri
• 6-12 Head of a Man

-------end Etruscan

• 6-13 Portrait Head of an Elder
• 6-17 Pont du Gard
• 6-18 Exterior view (A) and Plan (B) of a Temple (Portunus?)
• 6-19 Augustus of Primaporta
• 6-20 Ara Pacis
• 6-27 Peristyle Garden
• pp. 180 - 183 - Wall paintings from Roman houses (the concept in general)
• p. 187 - Roman Vaulting
• 6-34  Still Life, House of the Stags
• 6-47 Column of Trajan
• 6-29 - Main hall, Markets of Trajan
• 6-49 Pantheon
• 6-56 The Unswept Floor (mosaic)
• 6-59 Caracalla
• 6-62 The Tetrarchs
• 6-68 Constantine the Great

You should be familiar enough with other images presented in the text and lectures, so as to be able to support explanations of attribution and physical, formal, iconographical, and contextual analysis.

VOCABULARY

• acroterion(ia)
• atrium
• arch (true/round)
• jamb
• voussoir
• keystone
• roundel
• pilaster
• podium
• buttress
• façade 
• Elements of Architecture:  Roman Architectural Orders, p. 161
• terra cotta

• peripteral vs. pseudo-peripteral
• Elements of Architecture: The Roman Arch, p. 170
• exedra(ae)
• oculus
• coffer
• barrel vault/groin vault
• Elements of Architecture: Roman Vaulting, p. 187
• mosaic
• tesserae
• linear perspective
• intuitive perspective
• atmospheric perspective
• diptych
• basilica