"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.

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