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Western Classical Art Traditions Classical Art -Roman Art- REVIEW Direction: Look at the pictures below, identify the artforms by choosing the answer on the boxes. Pallas and the Centaur The Discobolus The Parthen...

Western Classical Art Traditions Classical Art -Roman Art- REVIEW Direction: Look at the pictures below, identify the artforms by choosing the answer on the boxes. Pallas and the Centaur The Discobolus The Parthenon Judgement of Paris Pitsa Panel Direction: Look at the pictures below, identify the artforms by choosing the answer on the boxes. Pallas and the Centaur The Discobolus The Parthenon Judgement of Paris Pitsa Panel Direction: Look at the pictures below, identify the artforms by choosing the answer on the boxes. Pallas and the Centaur The Discobolus The Parthenon Judgement of Paris Pitsa Panel Direction: Look at the pictures below, identify the artforms by choosing the answer on the boxes. Pallas and the Centaur The Discobolus The Parthenon Judgement of Paris Pitsa Panel Direction: Look at the pictures below, identify the artforms by choosing the answer on the boxes. Pallas and the Centaur The Discobolus The Parthenon Judgement of Paris Pitsa Panel  VIDEO PRESENTATI ON  LESSON DISCUSSI ON  HISTORY… Centered in the city of Rome, the civilization of Ancient Rome ruled much of Europe for over 1000 years. The arts flourished during this time and were often used by the wealthy and powerful to memorialize their deeds and heritage.  Born from Greek Art The Romans admired the Greek culture and arts. After conquering Greece, they brought many Greek artists to Rome to make sculptures for them in the Greek fashion. The art of Ancient Greece had a great influence on the art of Ancient Rome. ✔ Roman Art Era refers to the visual art that developed in very diverse form. ✔ Embracing and promoting art with much of innovation, to such extent sometimes it exceeds and compromising quality but displays craftsmanship.  Interesting Facts about Ancient Roman Art Sculptures of people became so popular that artists would mass produce sculptures of bodies without the heads. Then when an order came in for a certain person, they would carve the head and add it to the sculpture. Roman Emperors would often have many statues made in their honor and placed around the city. They used this as a way of commemorating their victories and reminding the people who was in power.  Interesting Facts about Ancient Roman Art Some Greek statues only survive through the copies that the Romans had made. Rich Romans would have their stone coffins covered with ornate carvings. PAINTINGS Paintings were mostly copied or imitated from Hellenic Greek paintings. Fresco technique was used in brightly coloured backgrounds, division of the wall into a multiple rectangular areas (tic-tac-toe design) and multi-point perspective as well as a tropme-l’-oeil effect. Roman paintings portray rituals, myths, landscapes, still life and scenes of daily activities of the Romans.  Roman painting have a wide variety of subjects including animals, everyday life, still life, mythological subjects, portraits and landscapes (main innovation of Roman painting from Greek painting). The walls of the homes of wealthy Romans were often decorated with paintings. These paintings were frescos painted directly on the walls. Most of these paintings have been destroyed over time, but some of them were preserved in the city of Pompeii when it was buried by the eruption of a volcano. Head of Alexander (100 BC) Mosaic illustrates a battle in which Alexander charges the Persian King Darius in the Battle of Issus. This head was found during the excavations of the lower agora of Pergamon; it seems that it had fallen there from one of the buildings on the higher city. Boscotrecase, Pompeii Fresco landscape painting believed to depict a ceremonial rite, either a marriage or an initiation of a woman in a mystery cult. The villa's frescoes fall into the Pompeian Third Style of wall-paintings which were created during the imperial rule of Augustus. ARCHITECTU RES Architectures from this era were sturdy stone structures both for use and to perpetuate their glory. The emperors erected huge halls and arenas for public games, baths and procession with gigantic arches of stones, bricks and concrete or with barrel vaults. Roman Architecture continued the development of the Greek Classical style of Architecture but with quite different results. Romans built great engineering works-roads , canals, bridges and aqueducts. In Roman times, they built sturdy stones structures to perpetuate their glory. Emperors erected huge hall and arenas for public games, baths and processions, with gigantic arches of stone, bricks and concrete or with barrel vaults.  The Colosseum (70-82 AD in Rome, Italy) An oval amphitheatre built of travertine limestone, tuff (volcanic rock) and brick-faced concrete used for gladiatorial contests and public spectacles. The Colosseum is a large amphitheater built by King Vespasian between 72 AD-80 AD, for gladiatorial contests and other public events. SCULPTURES Sculptures were made of monumental terra-cotta. They did not attempt to compete with the free standing Greek works of history and mythology but rather produced reliefs in the Great Roman triumphal columns with continuous narrative reliefs around. Roman sculpture played an important part of the Roman daily life. Sculptures took the form of full statues, busts (sculptures of just a person's head), reliefs (sculptures that were part of a wall), and sarcophagi (sculptures on tombs). The Ancient Romans decorated with sculptures in a number of places including public buildings, public parks, and private homes and gardens Roman sculpture was heavily influenced by Greek sculpture. In fact, many of the Roman sculptures were just copies of Greek sculptures. The Portonacio Sarcophagus The Portonaccio Sarcophagus is dated to about 200 AD and was used for the burial of a wealthy Roman General who was active in the Campaigns of Marcus Aurelius. The sculptures show influences similar to those of the Column of Marcus Aurelius. This Sarcophagus, one of the many Roman Battle Sarcophagi, that was probably made in Athens. Carved in marble and used for the burial of Roman General involved in the campaign of Marcus Aurellius which depicts battle scenes between Romans and Germans. The Portonacio Sarcophagus Sarcophagus from Cervetiri (late 6th century BC) The Sarcophagus of the Spouses is an anthropoid (human-shaped), painted terracotta found in the ancient Etruscan city of Caere (now Cerveteri, Italy). The sarcophagus, which would have originally contained cremated human remains, was discovered during the course of archaeological excavations in the Banditaccia necropolis of ancient Caere during the nineteenth century and is now in Rome. Made of Terra-Cotta showing a husband and wife reclining comfortably as if they were on a couch.  ACTIVITY… ✔ You will be group into 4 ✔ Each group will compare the paintings of different periods, sculptures and architectures using the following indicators:  Name of the Period and era Material used Use of elements Distinctive paintin(sculpture when it was of arts characteristics or architecture) created  Oral Recitation.. ✔ What is the greatest contribution of Roman Arts to the modern world? ✔ What is/are the functions of Roman paintings, sculpture and architecture.