Final Ancient Painting Flashcards
(48 cards)
Roman Republic
509-27 BCE
Roman Empire
27 BCE - 400 CE
Techniques
Fresco, medium beeswax, casein
Funerary relief of decorations at work
2nd C CE (group work everyone has a job)
Tombe van Philippus
Depth, perspectiv, color and shading, Hellenistic inspired
House of the trident
Delos, late 2nd/early 1st century BCE (wall decoration is painted but looks like stone)
Military scene
Rooms, 3rd c BCE
Odyssey scenes
50BCE Inscriptions are Greek, landscape is start off painting, depth, understanding of light/dark
First Style
Masonry
Second Style
Architectural
Third Style
Ornate
Fourth Style
Intricate
House of sallust
Late 2nd early 1st BCE , 1st style
August Mau
Identified 4 Roman Painting styles
Villa of mysteries
Pompeii, 60-50 BCE (architectural 2nd style), no adult men at all, saters allowed, woman nursing deer, disturbed women, bride room?, no idea what happened it was all extremely secretive
Villa of Livia Prima Porta
20bce, Nature in house
Roll
Scroll
Codex
Book introduced end of 1 c CE
Vergilius vaticanus Aeneas and Dido
5th century, purple couch
Vergilius Romanus, Georgics
5th century, romanticizing farming life, animal husbandry
Vienna Genesis, Rebecca and Eliezer at the well
Early 6 c, Genesis was favored, important was stains purple, personification of well as naked goddess
rossano gospels, Christ before pilate
Early 6th c, Christ appears like we know him
Rabbula gospel, ascension
Before 586, not according to scripture, includes Mary even tho gospel didn’t have her, prefiguration of Christ to prove is him, Paul never met Christ but he’s here, 4 beats of the apocalypse
Mary
Symbol of rebirth, she wear purple because she’s a major figure, she was declared mother of god is 431
