ARHI 201 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Corinthian Order, Pantheon, Rome, Pont Du Gard
29 Oct 2018
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Busts of ancestors were often in little gardens or sidetables in your house. Line of ancestors in home, people who would visit the home would associate political meaning or military action with the entire family. Really fit and idealized body but with an older face. Various roles people had in their lives (aristocrat, military career, male) Suggesting elevation to divine status while he was still alive. Highest name for the highest role of religious leader. Common for roman rulers to be displayed in every town center. Humble expression, worried about the difficulties of ruling an entire empire. Typical gesture of greeting of the raised arm. Made of porphyry hard dense granite from egypt. Color was burgundy red, which was the identity of the ruler and not to be used by others: public location, group portrait depicted the 4 rulers as nearly identical.
