10/16/10 Art History I

Today's Class- Today we finished our look at the Romans, with sculpture from the High Imperial period through the end of the empire, as well as a brief discussion of Roman two dimensional art. With that, we finished Book 1 (Ancient Art), so we spent the second half of class reviewing for next week's midterm exam.

Important Terms- (nothing new came up today, so here are some that are on the review sheet that did not get posted here yet this semester) abstract/abstraction, acropolis, alloy, cuneiform, drillwork, engaged column, fresco, mausoleum, memory image, sanctuary, tetrarchy, triglyph

Important Artworks- Column of Trajan, Equestrian Statue of Marcus Aurelius, Carcalla, Tetrarchs, Constantine the Great (head)

Homework- Bring in your current events arts journals, including a new article for next week, to be reviewed. Your research assignments are due on October 30, 2010.

For next class 10/23/10- We will have the 1st midterm exam at the beginning of class, so be on time. After that we will begin our study of Jewish, Early Christian, and Byzantine art, so bring Book 2 and a notebook.