Ancient Art Survey: Survey of Western Art I, Week 8 provides information on various topics that will be covered on the upcoming final exam in two weeks. Key terms are listed including Tiberius, Nero, Domus Aurea, Pompeii, Vespasian, Colosseum, Trajan, Pantheon, Constantine, and early Christian art and architecture. Possible essay questions focus on Vespasian's choice to depict himself in a realistic style and his motivations for constructing the Flavian Amphitheater, also known as the Colosseum. Additionally, how early Christian art borrowed forms from other traditions but gave them new Christian meanings.

1. Ancient Art Survey: Survey of Western Art I, Week 8
Final in two weeks. Papers due in two weeks.
Tiberius, cameo, trophy, Nero, Domus Aurea, trompe l'oeil, First through Fourth Styles
(painting), Villa of Mysteries, Pompeii, Mt. Vesuvius, Vespasian, Flavian, Flavian
Ampitheater, Colosseum, arch construction, voussiors, keystone, buttress, arcade, vault,
triumphal arch/column, Titus, Damnatio Memoriae, Nero, Column of Trajan, Trajan,
forum, basilica, apse, nave, Dacians, Hadrian, Tivoli, Canopus, Antinoos, Narcissus,
Pantheon, coffers, oculus, Constantine (the Great), chi rho, The Vision of Constantine,
Battle of the Milvian Bridge (312 AD), Edict of Milan, Arch of Constantine, spolia,
orantes, catacombs, cubiculi, loculi, typology, Abraham and the Three Men (Angels),
Jonah, basilica (church), apse, nave, transept (crossing), saints/attributes (St. Peter: keys,
etc.), Santa Maria Maggiore,
Possible essay questions:
Discuss images of Vespasian—why did he choose to be depicted in a veristic style? What
was the “Flavian Ampitheater,” what were his motivations in constructing it, and how did
it utilize the principles of arch construction?
How did the early Christian art (including architecture) start as an art of borrowing? How
did the early Christians consistently reinterpret and give new, Christian meanings to their
borrowed forms? What are some of the attributes that would be associated with various
important Christian saints?
Images:
Colosseum, c.80 AD
Pantheon, c.125 AD
Arch of Constantine, c.312 AD
Christian Catacomb (Catacomb of Sts. Pietro e Marcellinus), 4th cent. AD