Roman Art and Archaeology: Week 9

the region of Italy, specifically the Bay of Naples, where Pompeii is located

a city destroyed by the flow of mud and gas from the eruption of mount Vesuvius; considered a better single preserved moment than Pompeii

the famous city preserved in the ash from the eruption of mount Vesuvius

son of the famous writer, Pliny the Elder, and writer of the only first-person account of the eruption of Mount Vesuvius

a map of streets at right angles

a public space used for some court matters and business

really boiling hot furnace creates steam and hot water: air is sent under the floor and water creates HOT bath

(59 CE) Riot at the Pompeii Amphitheater between Pompeians and Nucerians

62 CE

79 CE

not distinct periods of style (they overlap) but “trends” in art and architecture that were popular in Pompeii

(200-60 BCE) imitates opulancy of different architectural forms such as ashlar masonry (smooth marble blocks) and different colored marble

(1st c BCE) “opening” of vistas into imaginary landscapes; inntended to be “voyages of the mind” in nature; less interesting stuff on the floor

(20 BCE--20 CE) minimalist color fields and framed floating landscapes; reduction and attenuation of form

(20-54 CE and beyond) features greek mythological scenes at the “pregnant moment”; intended to interest but not tell the whole story; perspectival architecture

still life scenes, usually of food

Villa with preserved texts from the eruption

Fig. 3-10A Plan of the basilica, Pompeii, ca. 80–70 BCE. (1) tribunal, (2) nave, (3) aisle, \n (4) chalcidicum

Fig. 3-11 Plan of the Forum Baths, Pompeii, ca. 80–70 BCE and Augustan

Fig. 3-15 Aerial view of the amphitheater (looking northwest), Pompeii, ca. 80–70 BCE

Fig. 3-18 Brawl in the Pompeii amphitheater, from House I,3,23, Pompeii, ca. 60–79 CE

Fig. 3-7 Capitolium and western arch, forum, Pompeii, during the earthquake of 62 CE, as represented in a relief at House of L. Caecilius Iucundus, Pompeii, ca. 62-70

Fig. 3-19 Tombs on the south side of the road outside the Nuceria gate, Pompeii

Fig. 4-3 Atrium of the House of Sallust looking toward the hortus, Pompeii, mid-second century BCE

Fig. 4-13 Corinthian oecus of the House of the Labyrinth, Pompeii, mid-first century BCE

Fig. 4-17 Second Style mural paintings in room 2 of the House of the Griffins, Palatine Hill, Rome, ca. 80 BCE

Fig. 6-25 Perseus and Andromeda, detail of a Third Style mural painting, Villa of Agrippa Postumus, Boscotrecase, ca. 10 BCE

Fig. 11-17 Perseus and Andromeda, mural painting from the House of the Dioscuri, Pompeii, ca. 62–79 CE

Fig. 11-18 Still life with peaches, detail of a Fourth Style mural painting, from the House of the Stags, Herculaneum, ca. 70–79. Fresco

Fig. 11-19 The baker Terentius Neo and his wife, mural painting from house VII,2,6, Pompeii, ca. 70–79. Fresco

Fig. 11-21 The old farmer of Corycus, folio 7 verso of the Vatican Vergil, ca. 400–420. Tempera on parchment