roman arts and architecture

Arts & Architecture, Arts & Architecture, Technology & Technology &

Science, Literature, Science, Literature, Language, and LawLanguage, and Law

Emily DaiEmily Daifor Mr. for Mr. HaskvitzHaskvitz

6.7.7: Discuss the legacies of Roman art and architecture, technology and science, literature, language, and law. Pantheon

Arts & ArchitectureArts & ArchitectureMajor WorksArchitecturePaintingSculptureMosaic

Minor WorksMetal-workCoin-dieGem engravingIvory carvingFigurine glassPottery Book illustration

Temple of Jupiter

ArchitectureArchitecture Concrete-based Concrete-based Arches Arches Columns (pillars)Columns (pillars) DomesDomes Aqueducts Bridges Aqueducts Bridges RoadsRoads Amphitheatre Amphitheatre Public bathsPublic baths Light HousesLight Houses

Arch of Trajan

Arch of Constantine

Septimus Severus

Arch of Titus

Pompeii Street

Aqueduct of Segovia

Pont de Gard

Baths of DiocletianBaths of Caracalla

Colosseum

PaintingPainting

1. Incrustation 1. Incrustation

2. Architectonic2. Architectonic

3. Real Painting3. Real Painting

4. 4. OrnamentalOrnamental

-Simple/bare style-Use of plaster/colors (black, yellow, red)

-Show arches/colonnades/buildings in a different perspective -imaginary space in between

-Simple strokes-Flat background

-exaggerated/unreal composition

Funeral Monuments

SarcophagiTombstones

BewarBeware of e of the the

dog!dog!

Relief Sculpture (shallow 3D carving on flat surfaces)

Trajan’s Column

Portraiture

Emperor AugustusSabina

Equestrian Statue of Marcus Aurelius

-copied Greek sculpture-emphasized the individual-many surviving Roman Emperor statues

Hydraulic TechnologyHydraulic TechnologyAqueductsAqueductsBathsBathsWellsWellsIndoor PlumbingIndoor Plumbing

Road ConstructionRoad ConstructionGreat Public Great Public BuildingsBuildingsPrivate HomesPrivate Homes

Theaters/AmphitheatersTheaters/AmphitheatersForumsForumsTemplesTemplesArenasArenas

Sewage SystemSewage System

Mood: Indicative or Subjunctive Voice: Active or Passive Tense: Present, Imperfect, Future, Perfect, Future-Perfect, Plu-Perfect Person: First, Second, or Third Number: Singular or Plural

LatinLatinSEVEN CASES*Nominative: subjects*Genitives: possessive forms of words; shows ownership*Dative: words translated with ‘to’ or ‘for’; express indirect objects, objects of prepositions, possession, or direct objects *Accusative: words translated as the direct object in a sentence*Ablative: used in prepositions to mark motion away from something*Vocative: used for direct address*Locative: to express the location of cities, towns, and nations

LiteratureLiterature Poems with rhythm (Poems with rhythm (dactylic hexameter, elegiac dactylic hexameter, elegiac

couplets, hendecasyllabic, limping iambic, etc.)couplets, hendecasyllabic, limping iambic, etc.) Accented/unaccented syllablesAccented/unaccented syllables Rhetorical tropes (devices)Rhetorical tropes (devices)

Synchysis: rhythm ABABSynchysis: rhythm ABABChiasmus: rhythm ABBAChiasmus: rhythm ABBAHomeoteleuton: repetitionHomeoteleuton: repetitionSyncopation Syncopation AlliterationAlliterationAssonanceAssonance

Publius Ovidius Naso (Ovis) (43 BC –- 17 AD) -wrote controversial poems -Amores (love poems) -Metamorphosis (book of changes) -Epistulae ex Ponto (Letters of Pontus): conveyed the sorrow and repent for his unspecified crime Publius Vergilius Maro

(Virgil)-Aeneid (national epic of Rome’s history inspired by Homer's Iliad and Odyssey )Titus Livius (Livy)

-Ab Urbe Condita (From the Founding of the City)-wrote history’s first ‘what if’ scenario

Famous poetsFamous poets

Public LawPrivate LawRoman StatusRoman litigation

The Twelve TablesThe Twelve Tables TABLE I- Procedure: for courts and trialsTABLE I- Procedure: for courts and trials TABLE II- Trials, continued. TABLE II- Trials, continued. TABLE III- DebtTABLE III- Debt TABLE IV- Rights of fathers (paterfamilias) over the TABLE IV- Rights of fathers (paterfamilias) over the

familyfamily TABLE V- Legal guardianship and inheritance lawsTABLE V- Legal guardianship and inheritance laws TABLE VI- Acquisition and possessionTABLE VI- Acquisition and possession TABLE VII- Land rightsTABLE VII- Land rights TABLE VIII- Torts and delicts (Laws of injury)TABLE VIII- Torts and delicts (Laws of injury) TABLE IX- Public lawTABLE IX- Public law TABLE X- Sacred law TABLE X- Sacred law TABLE XI- Supplement ITABLE XI- Supplement I TABLE XII- Supplement IITABLE XII- Supplement II

Pont du Gard

Which of the following was not part of the Roman architecture?

A) archesB) columnsC) tunnelsD) domes

2. Which of the following is NOT a major work of Roman arts and architecture?

A) MosaicB) PotteryC) PaintingD) Sculpture

3. Which best fits this description: simple, bare style; use of plaster; black, yellow, red

A. IncrustationB. Architectonic C. Real PaintingD. Ornamental

Which table from the Twelve Tables deals with land rights:

A) Table IB) Table VC) Table VIID) Table XII

5. How has the Roman Empire affected our lives nowadays?

Thank you for your time.