3/5/10 Art History I

Today's Class- Today we continued our study of the Roman Empire. We backtracked briefly to look again at the Colosseum and the Pantheon, but also looked at other typical Roman structures, such as baths and basilicas. We then moved on to Roman sculpture and monuments. With the former, we saw the evolution of figure sculpture from absolute realism to abstracted symbolism.

Important terms- barrel vault, groin vault, basilica, memory image, rotunda, tetrarchy

Important artworks- Augustus Primaporta, Middle Aged Flavian Woman, Column of Trajan, Equestrian statue of Marcus Aurelius, Carcalla, Tetrarchs, Head of Constantine, Basilica of Maxentius and Constantine

Homework- You should have a new current art events article with your journal reaction to it for class on Tuesday, 3/9/10. Have all your journal articles that day as I am collecting all of them to review. You should have 6 articles by then.

If you have not done so already, I suggest you read chapter 6, particularly about two dimensional work such as paintings and mosaics.

For next class 3/9/10 We will finish our study of the art of the Roman empire and then have a review session in anticipation of our midterm exam on March 12th. Bring Book 1 (Ancient Art) and a notebook.