Deck 14: The Antonines

Question 1

All of the following people were adopted into the line of succession during the triple adoption ceremony of 138 EXCEPT

A)Hadrian
B) Antoninus Pius
C) Lucius Verus
D) Marcus Aurelius

Answer 1

A

Question 2

Hadrian's most notable contribution to Roman imperial portraiture was the addition of

A) the bulla.
B) a beard.
C) verism.
D) attributes of Jupiter.

Answer 2

B

Question 3

Faustina the Elder's portraits depict her as

A) various Greek goddesses.
B) an aged woman in veristic style.
C) mature and maternal.
D) idealized and youthful.

Answer 3

C

Question 4

Instead of "freezing" the aging process upon his accession in 161, the portraits of Marcus Aurelius

A) never depict him as a mature adult.
B) never depict him as a young man.
C) depict him as eternally youthful.
D) depict him as growing steadily older.

Question 5

In the bronze equestrian statue of Marcus Aurelius, the emperor's gesture of clementia indicates that he will do what with the now-lost figure of the enemy?

A) spare him
B) execute him
C) imprison him
D) fine him

Question 6

Why did Faustina the Younger, wife of Marcus Aurelius, receive the honorary title Augusta?

A) She was a direct descendent of Augustus.
B) She quickly produced an imperial heir, which enhanced her importance.
C) She styled herself after Augustus's wife, Livia.
D) Because she was childless, she adopted and cared for many orphaned children.

Question 7

Because of the effects a sculptor could achieve with the drill, the most innovative sculptural work during the second century CE was carried out in what material?

A) silver
B) gold
C) marble
D) bronze

Question 8

Under the Antonines, building activity in Rome was

A) completely halted.
B) experimental and innovative.
C) extensive and ostentatious.
D) limited and conservative.

Question 9

Representations of the decursio ceremony depict

A) ritual circling of a funerary pyre.
B) official pardoning of a debt.
C) mercy offered to a state enemy.
D) the ascent of a soul to Heaven.

Question 10

What part of the Column of Antoninus Pius is decorated with reliefs?

A) the column shaft
B) the pedestal
C) the inner staircase
D) the column capital

Question 11

The portraits of Marcus Aurelius commissioned as he was nearing death depict him as

A) a youthful man with an aged body.
B) a mature man with an idealized, heroic body.
C) a weary and concerned old man.
D) a youthful and idealized Greek deity.

Question 12

Marcus Aurelius's philosophical treatise is popularly known as the

A) Georgics.
B) Aeneid.
C) Confessions.
D) Meditations.

Question 13

The model for the Column of Marcus Aurelius was

A) the Column of Trajan.
B) the Arch of Titus.
C) the Ara Pacis Augustae.
D) the Mausoleum of Hadrian.

Question 14

Beginning in the Column of Marcus Aurelius, the emperor appears in a new compositional format that shows him as

A) a Classicizing deity sharing power with Jupiter.
B) the central, frontal figure of a triad.
C) in the act of adlocutio.
D) the focal point of the decursio ritual.

Question 15

What is the subject matter of the long narrative frieze that winds around the shaft of the Column of Marcus Aurelius?

A) Roman military campaigns against the Dacians
B) Roman military campaigns against the Germans and Sarmatians
C) the apotheosis of Marcus Aurelius
D) the apotheosis of Antoninus Pius and Faustina the Elder

Question 16

Discuss the influence of Hadrian's portraiture on his successors.

Question 17

Compare and contrast the portraits of Marcus Aurelius as prince and the portraits of Marcus Aurelius as emperor.

Question 18

Discuss the representations of Faustina the Younger and the message that her portraiture was meant to convey.

Question 19

Describe the various ways in which the emperor Commodus was represented in portraiture.

Question 20

Discuss how the apotheosis of Antoninus Pius and Faustina the Elder was represented in art.

Question 21

Describe the various building projects that the Antonines initiated in Rome.

Question 22

Discuss the extant pictorial and literary evidence for imperial funerals.

Question 23

Describe how the subject matter of the panel reliefs from the now-lost arches of Marcus Aurelius characterizes the emperor.

Question 24

Explain how the late portraits of Marcus Aurelius radically depart from all previous imperial portraiture.

Question 25

Compare and contrast the style and subject matter of the Column of Marcus Aurelius with the Column of Trajan.

Question 26

Explain how Antonine relief sculptors show increasing disinterest in the Classical style.

Question 27

Discuss the ways in which the portrayal of the emperor changed in portraiture and relief sculpture during the reign of Marcus Aurelius.

Question 28

The Great Antonine Altar at Ephesus, Turkey, celebrates the peaceful transition of power among the Antonine dynasts.

Question 29

The Temple of Antoninus and Faustina was unusual because it functioned as a prominent, monumental shrine in honor of a woman.

Question 30

The reliefs on the Column of Marcus Aurelius represent a return to the Classicizing principles of Augustan art.