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Roman Art History

Why did I choose itPortrait sculpture and ideals. Information about ancient Rome.

Roman Art has variety of interesting artworks.

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About Roman Art Roman art is kind of visual art that is appeared in the Roman Empire's territories. Roman Art includes different types of art aspects such as architecture, painting and sculpture. Ancient Rome had lots of artistic sense and that is shown from their building’s styles and their detailed paintings and sculptures of human being.

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Paintings - Portrait art

- Characterized by unusual realism.- Realistic and natural.- Portrait their emperors and show them like great and important people. - Sculpture artwork and most of them for emperors and warriors.- Decoration and design.

Funerary Portrait Painting of a Young Man from the Roman Period

Examples of Roman Sculpture

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Examples of Roman Sculpture

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Mosaics

* Designing Pictures using tiles.* Covering the floor.* Daily life.* Special events.

Over time the mosaics became ever more realistic in their portrayal of human figures and accurate and detailed portraits become more common.

The Technique Romans usually used small square pieces measuring between 0.5 and 1.5 cm. These squares were cut from different materials such as marble, tiles, pottery, stone and glass.

Interior design It has been said that Augustus, who was emperor from 27 bc to ad 14, found Rome of brick and left it of marble, and certainly the interior decoration of imperial Rome expressed the emergence of the city as a world powertoward which flowed much of the wealth of the empire. Exotic marbles began to be imported, and brick walls were faced with polished slabs of white and coloured stone. In the more luxurious interiors or for special purposes, obsidian and a natural volcanic glass.

What makes ancient Rome unique

4 terms describe the eraRealistic

Ancient

Detailed

Artistic

• High level of realistic in their artworks that was in the period of ancient Rome makes it unique than other periods.

• The unique sculptures of human beings also make that era special and unique.

Resources http://theartsupplystore.co/ http://www.flickriver.com/photos/ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ http://www.primaryhomeworkhelp.co.uk/romans/

mosaics.html http://venividizoom.com/italy-2011/roman-rome/ http://wiki.answers.com/Q/The_history_of_roman_art http://www.ancient.eu.com/article/498/

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