The document provides an overview of key terms and concepts from an art history class through a series of slides depicting important works of art from the Ancient Roman World through the Early Middle Ages in Europe. The slides cover topics like portraiture styles, major buildings like the Colosseum and Pantheon, large sculptures of emperors and tetrarchs, the interplay between art and religion depicted in catacomb frescoes and early churches, and illuminated manuscripts from the Insular art tradition.

1. Art History Review
Here are a sample of slides to help you review
the terms and concepts from class discussion
and the readings.

2. The Ancient Roman World.

3. Patrician Carrying Portrait Busts of Two Ancestors.
End of 1st century BCE or beginning of 1st century CE. Height 5’ 5”.

4. Verisitic vs. Idealizing
Emperor Claudius (50 CE)
Imperial portrait
Head of an Old Man (1st century BCE)
Republican portrait

5. Dorphorus, or Spear Bearer (450 BCE)
Imperial Roman marble copy of
Greek Bronze original
Emperor Claudius as Jupiter (50 CE)

6. Augustus of Primaporta. Early 1st century CE. Height 6’ 8”.

7. Colosseum, or Flavian
Amphitheater
(72-80 CE)
Rome
Pantheon (118-125 CE)
Rome

8. Pont Du Gard. Late 1st century BCE.
Height above river 160’, width of road bed on lower arcade 20’.

9. Colossal marble statue of Constantine (315 CE)

10. The Tetrarchs. c. 300 CE.

12. Art and Religion
How would you describe the interplay between
art and religion?
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How art explains the dogma of a religion
Art can confirm the faith of believers
An intermixture of art, religion and politics
Art facilitates religious ritual

13. Cubiculum of Leonis, Catacomb of Commodilla. Late 4th century.

14. Sarcophagus of Junius Bassus. c. 359. 4’ × 8’.

15. Jacopo Grimaldi. Interior of Old St. Peter's.
1619 copy of an earlier drawing.

16. Reconstruction Drawing, Old St. Peter's Basilica. c. 320–327;
atrium added in later 4th century. Approx. 394’ long and 210’ wide..

17. Church of Santa Costanza. c. 350.

18. Santa Costanza (ca. 350 CE)
Rome
Harvesting of grapes - example of syncretism

19. Sarcophagus of Constantina. c. 350. Height 7’ 5”.

20. Hagia Sophia (532-537 CE)
Anthemius of Tralles and Isidorias of Miletus, Architects
Istanbul, Turkey

21. Saint Apollinare in Classe (533-49 CE)
Near Ravenna, Italy

22. The Transfiguration of Christ with Sant’Apollinare,
First Bishop of Ravenna. Mosaics: apse, 6th century;
wall above apse, 7th and 9th centuries; side panels, 7th century.

23. San Vitale (526-547 CE)
Ravenna, Italy
Emperor Justinian and Theodora

25. Europe of the Early Middle Ages.

26. Visigothic Fibulae. 6th century.
Height 5 5/8”.
Found in Spain

27. Oseberg Ship Excavation, Norway, dating from c. 815–820.

28. Purse from the Sutton Hoo Burial Ship.
First half of 7th century.

29. Hinged Clasp, from the Sutton Hoo Burial Ship.
First half of 7th century. Length 5”.

30. Page with Man, Gospel Book of Durrow.
Second half of 7th century. 9 5/8 × 6 1/8”.

31. Cross Page from the Lindisfarne Gospels. c. 715–720.
13 3/8" × 9 7/16".

32. “Franks Casket” from Northumbria, England, c. 700. Whalebone
(Note: Anglo-Saxon, not Frankish)

33. Carolingian Art
Palatine Chapel (786 CE) Aachen, Germany / Aix-la-Chapelle
Odo of Metz, architect
Charlemagne / Carolus Magnus, patron