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CLST 103 Chapter 10 Exam Questions and Answers Latest Update 2024 (Graded A+) Early Roman Art - Answers - no native tradition of artistic production - developed in the shadows of the Etruscans - used bronze and terracotta - remained dominant until the 4th century Greek art in Rome - Answers - ...

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CLST 103 Chapter 10 Exam Questions and Answers Latest Update 2024 (Graded A+)

Early Roman Art - Answers - no native tradition of artistic production

- developed in the shadows of the Etruscans

- used bronze and terracotta

- remained dominant until the 4th century

Greek art in Rome - Answers - plundered statues and paintings from captured cities

- inspired by religious motives and a desire to beautify the city

- eventually, people wanted to privately own Greek art for their homes and villas

- Greek artists started working to satisfy Roman customers

- a whole market was established for Athenian art in Delos

Greek styles in Rome - Answers - particularly good workings with marble

- increased importation of Greek art led to Hellenisation of Roman buildings

- more pronounced after Rome annexed Greece in 2nd c. BCE

Italian current in architecture - Answers - a fusion of ideas from Etruscan and Greek styles

- uses materials and ornamental Greek forms but had a distinctive shape, raised on a podia and
approached from the front with a stairway

- emphasis on the front of the building with column on the front or sides

- plain wall at the back

Concrete architecture - Answers - happened toward the end of the 3rd c. BCE

- mixture of lime, water, sand

- can be used as an adhesive or as a building material

- effective for construction of vaults

- execution of building with concrete was carried out by slaves

- its simplicity allowed for a lot more large-scale projects

- using volcanic sand gave concrete hydraulic properties

Roman Portraiture - Answers - portrait sculpture was heavily Hellenistic

, - emphasis on age and experience

- Flaminius was first to be depicted on coinage

- for private portraits, they followed Etruscan style, with focus on the head and simplification of the
body

- tradition of keeping the wax masks of the ancestors to give way to busts

veristic style - Answers - manifestation of private portraiture

- emerged at the beginning of the 1st c. BCE

- uncompromising depiction of external features of the subject

Classicising statuary - Answers - copying Greek statues became common practice as the demand for
them was so high

- some artists combined traits of different works

- some endowed old ones with new meanings which led to new forms of display

- public buildings were made to show off the art

luxuria - Answers - private statue collection is one aspect of the luxurious life style

- mosaics were very fine pieces and often thought to be imported

- stuccowork was inspired by monumental masonry applied in Hellenistic palaces

Art as propaganda - Answers - art celebrated military and political events

- leaders used Hellenistic paintings to heighten the drama of achievement

- use of coins to illustrate deeds of their ancestors, often with a lot of detail

relief sculpture - Answers - Sculpture that projects from a flat background

- modelling of the bodies and the composition attests to prevalence of Hellenistic styles

Roman legends - Answers - used in art as a part of Augustus' self-promotion

- he stresses his family's historical identity

- promoted the popularity of artistic representations of foundation legends

- demonstrated in Augustus' forum with a gallery of statues of the heroes of Rome

Allegory - Answers - usually represented in the coinage as it reached everyone in the Empire

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