Week 8

Question 1

Nike of Samothrace

Answer 1

Personification of victory, crowns the winner of a contest: heroes or athletes

Depicted sailing through the water/sea.

Wet drapery with cloth billowing past the body gives illusion of Nike on a ship at sea. Almost nude

Question 2

Venus de milo

Answer 2

Facial features fully refined

Naturalism in face, hair, body

Female nude

Question 3

Etruscan temple

Answer 3

Wooden columns. Trsucan style: resembles Doric columns

3 doors and a porch, columns don’t wrap around entirely

Question 4

Etruscan Apollo

Answer 4

Etruscans love using inscriptions

Beaded hair - Assyrian inspired

Wearing a toga. No heroe worship in manner of the Greeks

Face: slanted eyes not uniqueness with Greeks and Italians today. Possibly related to assyrians

Stance: lively stance. Arms in motion. Legs in stride

Question 5

Cerveteri

Answer 5

Necropolis

Trumbull (plural for tumulus) stone based tomb. Made of tufa (lava rock) corboling method

Housing for the living, dead, and the gods. All organized in the 3 room configuration. Carved out to resemble a real building

Question 6

Tuscan sarcofogus

Answer 6

Women and men shown equally and lovingly

Richer c,ass can afford larger sarcofogus

Question 7

Tomb of Leopards

Answer 7

All underground, smaller, painted

Attention to naturalism

Question 8

Orator

Answer 8

In pose of orator - idea of speaking

Found in former territory of Etruscans. An Etrsucan inscription can be found at the bottom of the robe. This is an etrsucan counsel in the Roman senate

Votive statue

Question 9

Temple of Portunas

Forum Boarium

Answer 9

Temple at the cow market

Combination of Ionic and Etrsucan architectural styles

Only one way into temple - Etruscan
Only one cella
Load bearing columns in front, engaged columns on the other sides

Engaged columns - decorative columns, cut in half and placed onto load bearing wall, carries no load itself

Question 10

Engaged columns

Answer 10

decorative columns, cut in half and placed onto load bearing wall, carries no load itself

Question 11

509 BCE (Rome)

Answer 11

Romans evict the Etruscans from area around Rome, no longer ruled by an Etruscan king

Established a republic, no longer ruled by any one man

Question 12

410 BCE (Rome)

Answer 12

Rome sacked by Gauls

Romans decied to conquer territory and create a buffer zone

Question 13

Largo Argentina

Answer 13

Honors prestigious generals

Ignored rules prveneting large temples or monuments for any one person or family