Roman Art and Architecture

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Covering the founding of Rome by Romulus and Remus and the expansion to Etruscan and Greek Culture


 
  
Created Mar 13, 2010
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1
Seven Hills of Rome
 
Capitoline, Palatine, Aventine, Caelian, Esquiline, Viminal, Quirinal 
2
Story of Romulus and Remus
 
Remus goes to Aventine and Romulus goes to Palatine. Both believed they were chosen to find...
3
Bronze Statue
 
Capitoline wolf...believed that the two children are romulus and remus...she wolf who suckled...
4
Pomerium
 
sacred boundary around the city of Rome founded by Romulus and Remus 21 April 753 (finding...
5
Palatine Hut
 
Palatine hut (Etruscan) 8th and 9th centurymodels made Villanovan Hut urn reconstructed based...
6
Tumulus
 
Etruscan Tumulus (fake hill)... houses for the dead... stone w/dirt and trees
7
Etruscan Tomb
 
c. 600 BCE made from tufa. bilaterally symmetrical with platforms for sarcophagi or urn and...
8
Etruscan Temple
 
Temple at Veii. c. 500 BCEEtruscan Temple Type: only front columns, tall podium, high sculpture...
9
Greek temple type
 
Paestum in Magna Grecia/Temple of Hera II c.450 BCBuilt in stone (long lasting)in the round...
10
Greek Statue
 
statue by Polykleitos c. 450permanent statue with human proportions

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