Summative Examination: Roman Art

and Review Slides from Art of Ancient Greece

Part I: Slide Identification

Please write the answer by hand on the answer sheet.

Each question is worth 3 points.

1. Title?

Extra Credit: Approximate Date?

Nike (Victory) of Samothrace

c. 190 BCE

2. Title?Extra Credit: Approximate Date?

Basilica of Maxentius and ConstantineFinished 312 C.E.

3. Title?Extra Credit: Approximate Date?

Maison Carreec. 20 BCE

4. Title?5. Architect/Designer?Extra Credit: Approximate Date?

The Unswept FloorHerakleitos2nd century A.D

6. Title?

Extra Credit: Approximate Date?

Arch of Titus

c. 81 C.E.

7. Title?

8. Sculptor (of the original)?

Extra Credit: Approximate Date? Polykleitos

Spear Bearer (Doryphoros)c. 450-440 BCE a marble copyheight: 6’6”

c. 450-440 BCE a marble copyheight:

Spear Bearer (Doryphoros)

Polykleitos

c. 450-440 BCE

9. Title?

Augustus of Primaporta

10. Title?

11. Sculptor (of the original)?

Extra Credit: Approximate Date?

Aphrodite of KnidosPraxiteles

c. 350 BCE

12. Title?Extra Credit: Approximate Date?

The Colosseum 72-80 CE

13. Title?

Extra Credit: Approximate Date?

Aphrodite of Melos or Venus de Miloc. 150 BCE

Title?14. Title?

Kritian Boy

15. Title?16. Architect?Extra Credit: Approximate Date?

Trajan’s MarketApollodorus of Damascus110 CE

17. Title?

18. Sculptor (of the original)?

Extra Credit: Approximate Date?

Praxiteles Hermes and the Infant Dionysos

4th c. BCE original

19. Title?Extra Credit: Approximate Date?

Arch of Constantinec. 312-315 C.E.

20. Column of Trajan

Part II: Short AnswerPlease write the answer using the “keyboard.”

Your answers will probably be two or three sentences long.

Each question is worth 10 points.

1. What is the purpose of a triumphal arch?

2. What was the original purpose of the basilica?How is the basilica later reinterpreted by the Catholic Church?

3. What is this called? What is the purpose of this work of art?

4. What is this space called? How was it used? In many present-day (contemporary) houses, what has this space become?

5. What is this big “hole” called? This “hole” has two purposes: what are they?

6. This is drawing represents the plan of a typical Roman house. What does this plan reveal about what Romans wanted to accomplish?In other words, what did the Romans especially want or need in their private dwellings (in their domestic architecture)?

7. Identify the title of this relief and the larger work of which this relief is a part.Then, please explain what this relief is meant to argue. Please refer to specific visual elements within the relief.

8. Why is concrete so important to the Roman

Empire?

Part III: ComparisonsPlease write the answer using the “keyboard.”

This question is worth 100 points.

Please compare these two structures.

In your written response, please make sure that you discuss the 1. political purpose of the structure,

2. the religious purpose of the structure, as well as 3. the technological advances

which each structure makes manifest (shows in outward form).

The best answers will link assertions to visual evidence (whenever it is possible); the writer will offer a claim and immediately connect that utterance

to what can be “seen.” Specificity matters.

Kallikrates and IktinosParthenon, Acropolis,

Athens447-428 BCE

Pantheon Rome 125-128 CE

architectural drawings of the

Pantheon