"What Have the Romans Ever Done for us?" MONTY PYTHON'S The Life of Brian
Ancient Mediterranean - Khan Academy
Key Ideas
* Roman art reflects
their ambitions and monuments reflect the glory of the gods and government
* Roman architecture is famous for the arch, the vault, and the use of concrete.
* Roman paintings are few yet we have well preserved first, second, third, and
fourth styles from Pompeii.
* The Romans had a great interest in the height of Greek art and continued to
make many copies of Greek sculptures.
* The Romans also move away from cremation and begin to have burials. Roman
royalty are still cremated. Funerary practices may start to reflect the
influence of Christianity and other Eastern religions that believe in an
afterlife.
Student Resources
PowerPoint - Key
Ideas - Artworks List - Vocabulary - Q card Images
* Types of Vaults
Types of Government in early Rome
* YouTube Video:
WHCC - Rome
* YouTube Video: Roman Art
(Goodbye Art Academy)
* YouTube Video:
Roman Architecture
* YouTube Video: The
Pantheon
* YouTube Video: Pont du
Gard
* YouTube Video: The
Column of Trajan
* YouTube Videos: Mary McConnell -
lecture 1,
lecture 2,
lecture 3,
lecture 4,
REVIEW 1-GREECE,
REVIEW 2-ROME
* Visit the The Met's Heilbrunn
Timeline for a walk through history.
PRACTICE QUIZ:
Roman Art
JUST FOR FUN: "What
Have the Romans Ever Done For Us?" (Monty Python)
Artwork List
THE
REPUBLIC
Head of a Roman Patrician
IMPERIAL ROME
House of the Vettii
Augustus Primaporta
Pont du Gard
Colosseum
Arch of Titus (including Spoils of Jerusalem)
Forum of Trajan & Column of Trajan
Pantheon
Ludovisi Battle Sarcophagus
Vocabulary
ashlar masonry
atrium (atria)
basilica
coffer
composite column
continuous narrative
dome
encaustic
foreshortening
forum
fresco
impluvium (sunken pool)
keystone
oculus
peristyle
perspective
pier
spandrel
triclinium
triumphal arch
tuscan order
vault
verism
PLUS, MARY MCCONNELL'S LECTURES LISTED ABOVE
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS:
Thank you so much to Lynn Wilkinson, Mary McConnell, Valerie Park and Martha
Kunz for all their quidance and resources.
BACK TO CONTENT AREA 2 - ANCIENT MEDITERRANEAN.