1. Roman Art And Architecture
High Empire and Late Empire

2. Forum of Trajan Apses Aisles Nave Clerestory windows Aisles Entrance
Reconstruction –
interior of Basilica Ulpia
Nave
Clerestory windows
Aisles
Entrance

3. The last and largest Imperial Forum.
Built by Trajan, but finished under Hadrian.
The Greek architect, Apollodorus of Damascus was chosen

5. Trajan’s Column.
Roman soldiers building a wooden palisade at the seige of Sarmizethusa, the capital of the Dacian chief Decebalus.

6. AP
Grab chrome books/ textbooks. Move your seats together. You will be assigned a section to complete from the handout.

7. Column of Trajan
5 min.
Class quiz

8. Markets of Trajan

9. Comparable in size to a large modern shopping mall, had more than 150 individual shops on several levels.
Constructed of concrete (pg.184), brick, with only occasional detailing on stone and wood.
Why? Because there was a building code that was put into effect after a disastrous fire.

10. Pantheon (AP) exterior
reconstruction with
forecourt

11. Grab Chrome books or textbook and answer complete the handout.

12. https://www. khanacademy
8 min.
Class quiz

13. Pantheon interior
Coffers
Painting by
Giovanni
Pannini

14. Ludovisi Battle Sarcophagus – Battle of Romans & Barbarians
Mithras

15. https://www. khanacademy
5 min.
Class quiz

16. Sarcophagus of a philosopher

17. Arch of Constantine. Distribution of largess
Constantine flanked by statues of Hadrian & Marcus Aurelius

18. Compare it to the Arch of Titus

19. https://www. khanacademy
10 min

20. Distribution of largesse, Arch of Constantine