ARTH 200 Lecture Notes - Lecture 16: Tropaion, Spolia, Santa Costanza
7 Jan 2018
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Period of the tetrarchy and crises years art. Tetrarchs portrait group, constantinople, period of tetrarchy: built into st. mark"s cathedral, shared elements of greco-roman portraiture, veristic?, bearded one is the senior emperor, embrace and similarity is features represents equality and unity, the two emperors. Share power" and are identical, aka representing themselves in equal stake and standing. Silver medallion of constantine, tricinum, period of the tetrarchy: obverse is the front: constantine is looking at us whereas the shield, reverse: constantine is in a adlocutio pose, addressing his troops als holding a tropaion (trophy). Terms: tetrarchy- roman empire split into an eastern and western empire. Each ruled by tetrarchs, a senior emperor and a junior emperor: chi-rho- use of the first two letters of the name christ, in greek, tropaion- ancient trophy, spolia-a reused architectural object taken and used from another structure.
