Roman Culture
Review of Classical Style Order Proportion Humanism Realism Idealism
Building an Empire
Appian Way Via Appia
Via Appia
Concrete Developed concrete by mixing pozzolane (a volcanic material) with rubble.
Aqueducts System included siphons, tunnels, filter tanks and bridges They still work 222 million gallons a day
Aqueducts
The Coliseum The Flavian Amphitheatre
The Coliseum
Circus Maximus
Roman Music
The Epitaph of Seikilos 1 st century CE Carved onto a tombstone skolion – drinking song “As long as you live, be lighthearted. Let nothing trouble you. Life is only too short, and time takes its toll.”
Roman Faces
Funerary portrait, painted mummy case, from Fayoum, Egypt, lifesize, Roman period. (Ny Carlsberg Glyptothek, Copenhagen):
Portrait of the Emperor Marcus Aurelius Antoninus (Caracalla), marble, 14.25" h, c A.D. (Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York): Portrait of a Roman, marble, lifesize, c. 80 B.C. (Palazzo Torlonia, Rome)
Portrait of a Maiden, marble, c. 10.2" h, early Severan period, c A.D. (Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York): Portrait of Marciana, marble, 12.25" h, Hadrianic period, c A.D. (Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York):
Roman Architecture
Temple of Fortuna Virilis (Temple of Portunus)
Temple of Vesta
Trajan’s Column
The Pantheon
Giovanni Paolo Panini The Interior of the Pantheon Ca Oil on canvas
The Oculus
Pantheon
Roman Statuary
Commodus as Hercules
Octavian Roman, last decade of 1st century BCE found in Aegean Sea
Augustus Augustus of Prima Porta. Early 1st century CE. Marble, height 6’8”
Equestrian Statue of Marcus Aurelius. c. 176 CE. Bronze, originally gilded, height 11’6”
Roman Baths
Bath, England
Roman Baths Hypocaust
What a person would do: Get undressed in the dressing room Oil themselves Begin exercising in the palestra (exercise ground) Then into the tepidarium (warm baths) Then into the caldarium (hot baths) After sitting in the steam the person would scrape off the oil To finish off the bath the person would take a plunge in cold water and get redressed A Day at the Bath
Roman Baths