AP Art History                                 Your name:

Mrs. Erickson                                  November 2005

 

Review Sheet – Etruscan and Roman

Students are responsible for all images in Stokstad and on the AP Art history web page.  This is an aid for reviewing works in relation to historical periods.

 

Etruscan – Key Periods and Selected Works

 

Villanovan Period

Founding of Rome 753 BCE

 

Early Etruscan Art

(6th c. BCE sometimes identified as Archaic period)

Black-Figure Neck Amphora, Late 6th century

509 BCE founding of Roman Republic

Fibula with Orientalizing lions, from Cerveteri, ca. 650–640 BCE.

 

Model of a typical Etruscan temple of the sixth century BCE,

 

Apulu (Apollo), from roof Portonaccio  Temple, Veii, ca. 510–500 BCE.

 

Banditaccia necropolis, Cerveteri, Italy,  seventh to second centuries BCE

 

Sarcophagus with reclining couple, from Cerveteri, Italy,  ca. 520 BCE.

480-323 BCE sometimes identified with Classical period of Greek art (though not high point in Etruscan art)

Tomb of the Leopards, Tarquinia, Italy, ca. 480–470 BCE.

 

Diving and fishing, mural paintings in the Tomb  of Hunting and Fishing, Tarquinia, ca. 530–520 BCE.

 

She-Wolf (also called Capitoline Wolf), from Rome, Italy,  ca. 500–480 BCE

 

Chimera of Arezzo, from Arezzo, Italy, first  half of fourth century

323 – 89 BCE

89 BCE marks completion of Romanization of Italy

sometimes called Hellenistic period in reference to Greek dating

Ficoroni Cista, from Palestrina,  Italy, late fourth century BCE.

 

Interior of the Tomb of the Reliefs, Cerveteri, third century BCE

 


Roman Art – Key Periods, Major Historical Figures, and Selected Works

 

Monarchy (753-509 BCE)

 

Tarquinius Superbus

(exact dates of rule unreliable)

 

 

Republic (509 – 27 BCE)

 

Marcellus, consul (died 208 BCE)

Marius, consul (died 86 BCE)

Sulla, consul and dictator (died 79 BCE)

Julius Caesar, consul and dictator (died 44 BCE)

Mark Antony, consul, died 30 BCE

Aulus Metellus, late 2nd or early 1st century BCE.

Temple of Portunus, late 2nd c. BCE

Atrium of the House of the Vettii, Pompeii, Italy, second  century BCE

Sanctuary of Fortuna Primigenia, Palestrina. Italy. Begun  c. 100 BCE

Head of a Roman patrician, from Otricoli, Italy,  ca. 75–50 BCE.

Amphitheater, Pompeii, Italy, ca. 70  BCE.

Dionysiac mystery friezeVilla of the Mysteries c. 65-50 BCE

Bust of Julius Caesar

Cubiculum (bedroom) from the Villa of P. Fannius Synistor,  From Boscoreale, near Pompeii. ca. 40–30 B.C..

 

Early Empire (27 BCE – 96 CE)

 

 

Julio-Claudian Dynasty (14-68)

-       Augustus (ruled 27 BCE-14) (wife Livia also influential)

-       Tiberius (ruled 14-37)

-       Caligula (ruled 37-41)

-       Claudius (ruled 41-54)

-       Nero (ruled 54-68)

Roman Theatre, Orange. France, 1st Century BCE.

Pont du Gard, ca. 16 BCE

Ara Pacis, 13-9 BCE

Augustus of Prima Porta early 1st century CE

Livia, ca. 20 BCE

Maison CarrŽe, N”mes, France,  ca. 1–10 CE.

Colosseum (Flavian Amphitheater), Rome, Italy, ca. 70–80 CE

Arch of Titus, Rome, Italy, after 81 CE

Bust of a Flavian woman, ca. 90 CE.

Flavian Dynasty

-       Vespasian (ruled 69-79)

-       Titus (ruled 79-81)

-       Domitian (ruled 81-96)

 


 

High Empire (96 – 192 CE)

 

-       Nerva (ruled 96-98)

-       Trajan (ruled 98-117)

-       Hadrian (ruled 117-138)

-       Antoninus Pius (r. 138-161)

-       Marcus Aurelius (r. 161-180)

-       Lucius Verus (co emperor with Marcus Aurelius)

-       Commodus (ruled 180-192)

 

(five in italics above known as ŇFive Good EmperorsÓ)

Forum of Trajan, 112 CE.

Column of Trajan, 112 CE.

Markets of Trajan, Rome, Italy, ca. 100–112 CE.

Arch of Trajan, Benevento, Italy, ca. 114–118 CE.

Pantheon, Rome, Italy, 118–125 CE.

HadrianŐs Villa, ca. 130–138 CE.

Equestrian statue of Marcus Aurelius, ca.  175 CE.

Commodus as Hercules, c. 191-92 CE

 

 

Late Empire (192-337 CE)

 

Severan Dynasty

-       Septimius Severus (r. 193-211)

-       Caracella (r. 211-217) and brother Geta (whom he murdered)

-       Severus Alexander (r. 222-235)

 

Soldier Emperors

-       Trajan Decius (r. 249-251)

-       Trebonianus Gallus (r. 251-253)

 

Tetrarchs

-       Diocletian (r. 284-305)

-       Constantine I (r. 306-337)

 

Baths of Caracella 212–216 CE.

Portraits of the four tetrarchs, from Constantinople, ca.  305 CE.

Arch of Constantine, 312–315 CE

Portrait of Constantine, ca. 315–330

Basilica (Aula Palatina), Trier, Germany, early  fourth century CE