01:082:105 Lecture Notes - Lecture 14: Doryphoros, Cupid, Prima Porta
23 Feb 2017
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Romans use gravity for aqueduct rather than electricity. Staircase inside ramps leading to main staircase can see niches in arches. When you reach the central staircase, far from the ground, removed from city or ordinary world. Only gets better going up, leaving world behind. Dreams in night tell future or there are cards. Romans did what they needed to do (built up with concrete) to make what they wanted. Thought it was a temple of good luck. With more research for goddess portunus: gooddess of locks and safety. Fake columns closed in = engaged columns. Veristic = truth, maybe not entirely true. Show you can go through a lot & survive. Body didn"t matter as much but showed the role you played in society - fundamental to society. March 14th: brutus & friends stab caesar off edge. Depicted as the age when he got involved in roman politics. Cupid riding on the back of the dolphin.
