** EDIT REQUIRED - Greek&Roman Art History

Creativity & Social Context

ART HISTORY

Today’s slides covered the Roman era that adopted much of the Greek style & techniques of art & architecture. Rome was a republic ruled by a senate.  Rome had began to idiolise politicians not Gods as the Greeks did. Therefore the art portraits presented them as they were, warts & all.

Slides: Sulla – started as a politician and moved to be a general C80 bc

Julies Cezar – nephew Augustus

Civil War in pompei

Art moved to show the power of the Emporor & that of Rome in general

Slide: Le Plan de Rome 1934 Ad – Ideal Reference to Auriga Brief

Colosseum 72-80 AD Ponte du Gard (aqueduct) 

Romans were more engineers than artists

Pantheon House of Gods – Perfect dome.

Mosaic – Cave Canem – Beware of the dog. C100AD

The markets of Trojan is the equivalent of the Bullring.

Constantine the Great – 1^st Christian Emperor

Outside pressures placed on Roman Empire so monuments become bigger to exert their presence and grip on the power of the empire.

Arch of Constantine – Art suffers because of stagnation in society.

Celtic / Anglo Saxon Art – Known as the Dark Ages

Lindisfarne Gospels

Byzantine Art 500-700AD

Norman Invasion 1066