Summative Examination: Roman Art and Review Slides from Art of Ancient Greece
Part I: Slide Identification Please write the answer by hand on the answer sheet. Each question is worth 3 points.
1. Title? Extra Credit: Approximate Date? Nike (Victory) of Samothrace c. 190 BCE
2. Title? Extra Credit: Approximate Date? Basilica of Maxentius and Constantine Finished 312 C.E.
3. Title? Extra Credit: Approximate Date? Maison Carree c. 20 BCE
4. Title? 5. Architect/Designer? Extra Credit: Approximate Date? The Unswept Floor Herakleitos 2nd century A.D
6. Title? Extra Credit: Approximate Date? Arch of Titus c. 81 C.E.
7. Title? 8. Sculptor (of the original)? Extra Credit: Approximate Date? Polykleitos Spear Bearer (Doryphoros) c BCE a marble copy height: 6’6” c BCE a marble copy height: Spear Bearer (Doryphoros) Polykleitos c BCE
9. Title? Augustus of Primaporta
10. Title? 11. Sculptor (of the original)? Extra Credit: Approximate Date? Aphrodite of Knidos Praxiteles c. 350 BCE
12. Title? Extra Credit: Approximate Date? The Colosseum CE
13. Title? Extra Credit: Approximate Date? Aphrodite of Melos or Venus de Milo c. 150 BCE
Title? 14. Title? Kritian Boy
15. Title? 16. Architect? Extra Credit: Approximate Date? Trajan’s Market Apollodorus of Damascus 110 CE
17. Title? 18. Sculptor (of the original)? Extra Credit: Approximate Date? Praxiteles Hermes and the Infant Dionysos 4 th c. BCE original
19. Title? Extra Credit: Approximate Date? Arch of Constantine c C.E.
20. Column of Trajan
Part II: Short Answer Please write the answer using the “keyboard.” Your answers will probably be two or three sentences long. Each question is worth 10 points.
1. What is the purpose of a triumphal arch?
2. What was the original purpose of the basilica? How is the basilica later reinterpreted by the Catholic Church?
3. What is this called? What is the purpose of this work of art?
4. What is this space called? How was it used? In many present-day (contemporary) houses, what has this space become?
5. What is this big “hole” called? This “hole” has two purposes: what are they?
6. This is drawing represents the plan of a typical Roman house. What does this plan reveal about what Romans wanted to accomplish? In other words, what did the Romans especially want or need in their private dwellings (in their domestic architecture)?
7. Identify the title of this relief and the larger work of which this relief is a part. Then, please explain what this relief is meant to argue. Please refer to specific visual elements within the relief.
8. Why is concrete so important to the Roman Empire ?
Part III: Comparisons Please write the answer using the “keyboard.” This question is worth 100 points. Please compare these two structures. In your written response, please make sure that you discuss the 1. political purpose of the structure, 2. the religious purpose of the structure, as well as 3. the technological advances which each structure makes manifest (shows in outward form). The best answers will link assertions to visual evidence (whenever it is possible); the writer will offer a claim and immediately connect that utterance to what can be “seen.” Specificity matters.
Kallikrates and Iktinos Parthenon, Acropolis, Athens BCE
Pantheon Rome CE
architectural drawings of the Pantheon