1. Summative Examination: Roman Art and Review Slides from Art of Ancient Greece

2. Part I: Slide Identification Each question is worth 3 points.
Please write the answer by hand on the answer sheet.
Each question is worth 3 points.

3. Extra Credit: Approximate Date?
1. Title?
Extra Credit: Approximate Date?
Nike (Victory) of Samothrace
from the sanctuary of the Great Gods, Samothrace
c. 190 BCE
now at the Musee de Louvre, Paris 3

4. 2. Title?
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5. 3. Title?
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6. 4. Title?
5. Architect/Designer?
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7. 6. Title?
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8. 8. Sculptor (of the original)? Extra Credit: Approximate Date?
7. Title?
8. Sculptor (of the original)?
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9. 9. Title?

10. 11. Sculptor (of the original)? Extra Credit: Approximate Date?
10. Title?
11. Sculptor (of the original)? Extra Credit: Approximate Date?
Praxiteles
Aphrodite of Knidos
height: 6’8”
original marble of c. 350 BCE
Knidos is a city in Asia Minor
first statue by a well-known sculptor to represent a nude woman
a composite
the original was placed in an open shrine where people could view it from every side 10

11. 12. Title?
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12. Extra Credit: Approximate Date?
13. Title?
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13. Title?
14. Title? 13

14. Extra Credit: Approximate Date?
15. Title?
16. Architect?
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15. 18. Sculptor (of the original)? Extra Credit: Approximate Date?
17. Title?
18. Sculptor (of the original)? Extra Credit: Approximate Date? 15

16. 19. Title?
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17. 20. Title? 17

18. Part II: Short Answer
Please write the answer using the “keyboard.” Your answers will probably be two or three sentences long. Each question is worth 10 points.

19. 1. What is the purpose of a triumphal arch?

20. 2. What was the original purpose of the basilica
2. What was the original purpose of the basilica? How is the basilica later reinterpreted by the Catholic Church?

21. 3. What is this called? What is the purpose of this work of art?

22. 4. What is this space called. How was it used
4. What is this space called? How was it used? In many present-day (contemporary) houses, what has this space become?

23. 5. What is this big “hole” called
5. What is this big “hole” called? This “hole” has two purposes: what are they?

24. 6. This is drawing represents the plan of a typical Roman house
6. This is drawing represents the plan of a typical Roman house. What does this plan reveal about what Romans wanted to accomplish? In other words, what did the Romans especially want or need in their private dwellings (in their domestic architecture)?

25. 7. Identify the title of this relief and the larger work of which this relief is a part. Then, please explain what this relief is meant to argue. Please refer to specific visual elements within the relief.

26. 8. Why is concrete so important to the Roman Empire?

27. Please compare these two structures.
Part III: Comparisons Please write the answer using the “keyboard.” This question is worth 100 points.
Please compare these two structures.
In your written response, please make sure that you discuss the 1. political purpose of the structure, 2. the religious purpose of the structure, as well as 3. the technological advances which each structure makes manifest (shows in outward form).
The best answers will link assertions to visual evidence (whenever it is possible); the writer will offer a claim and immediately connect that utterance to what can be “seen.” Specificity matters.

28. Kallikrates and Iktinos
Parthenon, Acropolis, Athens
BCE

31. Pantheon Rome CE

34. architectural drawings of the Pantheon