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Funerary paintings
Tombs (round structures; door leading to a large interior chamber brightly painted)
Sculptures on rooftops
Colonnade
Around entire perimeter. Columns only in front.
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Porch: In front of, and behind, the cella. Only in front of the cella.
Podium: Small, consisting of three steps. Tall, with steps only in front.
Etruscan Painting
ROMAN ART
Artworks considered noble and imposing, yet were still produced in a manner that seemed
realistic
Take the form of a frieze (horizontal decorative band of a classical building) , covering three
walls of a large saloon)
Republican sculpture
Verism
a sort of hyperrealism in sculpture where the naturally occurring features of the subject
are exaggerated, often to the point of absurdity
Adopted the contrapposto, ideal proportion, and heroic poses of Greek statuary
Crowded
Key Ideas
Images
Sarcophagus from Cerveteri, 520 B.C.E., terra-cotta, Museo Nazionale di Villa Giulia, Rome
Capitaline Wolf, 500 B.C.E., bronze, Capitoline Museum, Rome
Garden Room, Villa of Livia, Prima Porta (Near Rome) Late 1st century, BCE. Fresco.
Head of a Roman Patrician from Otricoli, c. 75-50 BCE, marble (Palazzo Torlonia, Rome);
represents gravitas (seriousness of mind) and virtus (virtue)
Augustus of Primaporta, 1st century C.E., marble, 2.03 meters high (Vatican Museums)
Ludovisi Battle Sarcophagus: Battle of Romans and Barbarians (Ostrogoths), c. 250-260 C.E.,
marble, National Roman Museum, Rome