ARTHIST 101D Lecture Notes - Lecture 18: Roman Sculpture, Contrapposto
10 May 2018
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Lecture 18: Roman Sculpture
March 17, 2015
Head of a Roman Patrician
75-50 BCE
Realistic portrayal – applied clay to the face of deceased to get an accurate cast
Worship of ancestors, family lineage and social hierarchy
Terracotta head of a man
1st century BCE
Head of Pompey the Great
55-50 BCE
Roman general, from Tivoli
75-50 BCE
Contrapposto
Idealized torso, not naked
The Augustus of Primaporta
20 BCE
Celebrates the Augustun Peace
COMPARE to The Estruscan Arringatore (1st century BCE)
o Similar orating gesture
Ara Pacis Augustae (Altar of Augustun Peace)
13-9 BCE
In Field of Mars
Reliefs on the sides of family members
Head of Vespasian
75-79 CE
Rome, the Arch of Titus
81 CE
Spoils from the Temple of Solomon during Jewish War
The Emperor Trajan
Early 2nd century CE
Column of Trajan
113-116 CE
Reminiscent of obelisks in Egypt
Trajan’s forum
11-113 CE
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