Etruscan and Roman Homework

Etruscan and Roman Art

The following questions regarding Chapter 6 should be answered and turned in no later than Monday, October 3.

1. What was the history behind the sculpture of the She-Wolf (fig. 6-1)
2. What made the Apollo (figure 6-5) such an artistic achievement?
3. How were the Etruscan tomb chambers decorated?
4. Why is the distinction between early Roman and Etruscan art difficult?
5. What is Virgil’s legend of the founding of Rome?
6. What was the government structure of the Roman republic?
7. Why might the Romans have sought to create believable images in their sculptural works?
8. How and why did the Early Roman Empire develop?
9. How is the Ara Pacis (figure 6-21) a combination of decorative allegory and Roman realism?
10. What was the layout of the city of Pompeii?
11. What were the purposes of the atrium and the peristyle with regards to the Roman house?
12. What do the wall paintings of Pompeii reveal about the lives of the people?
13. What does the Arch of Titus (figure 6-38) depict?
14. Why is Republican period portraiture considered veristic?
15. What scenes are depicted on the Column of Trajan (figure 6-50)
16. What unique architectural elements are present in the Pantheon (figure 6-64)
17. What does the art of the third century CE emphasize?
18. How do the Tetrarchs (figure 6-70) show a turn toward symbolic representation?
19. What was the Edict of Milan and what did it do?
20. How does the large Head of Constantine the Great (figure 6-74) combine traditional and abstract qualities?