Roman Culture. Review of Classical Style Order Proportion Humanism Realism Idealism.

Roman Culture

Review of Classical Style

Order Proportion Humanism Realism Idealism

Building an Empire

Appian WayVia 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 ColiseumThe Flavian Amphitheatre

The Coliseum

The Coliseum

Circus Maximus

Roman Music

Roman Music

The Epitaph of Seikilos 1st 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. 217-230 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. 193-200 A.D. (Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York):

Portrait of Marciana, marble, 12.25" h, Hadrianic period, c. 117-138 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

The Pantheon

Giovanni Paolo Panini

The Interior of the Pantheon

Ca. 1734-1735

Oil on canvas

The Oculus

Pantheon

Roman Statuary

Commodus as Hercules

Octavian

Roman, last decade of 1st century BCEfound 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