arthisTORY 6 : ROMAN ART
ROMAN ART
As we know in roman art for several centuries Rome back then was the most powerful action on earth, excelling all others at military organization and warfare, engineering, and architecture. Its unique cultural achievements include the invention of the dome and the groin vault, the development of concrete and a European-wide network of roads and bridges. Despite this, Roman sculptors and painters produced only a limited amount of outstanding original fine art, preferring instead to recycle designs from Greek art, which they revered as far superior to their own. Basically, roman art are more to sculpture (bronze and marble statuary, sarcophagi), fine art painting (murals, portraiture, vase-painting), and decorative art (including metalwork, mosaics, jewellery, ivory carving). Back then, Roman art is traditionally divided into two main periods, art of the Republic and art of the Roman Empire (from 27 BC on), with subdivisions corresponding to the major emperors or imperial dynasties.
This is one of the most famous sculpture during roman empire period. statue of Augustus Caesar which was discovered on April 20, 1863 in the Villa of Livia at Prima Porta, near Rome. Augustus Caesar's wife Livia Drusilla, now known as Julia Augusta, retired to the villa after his death. The sculpture is now displayed in the Braccio Nuovo (New Wing) of the Vatican Museums. This sculpture portrays the ideal human proportions of an Athenian Athlete. Augustus Ceaser was the founder of Rome and a very successful leader. This marble statue is dated 15 A.D and is believed to be a copy of the bronze original commissioned by Tiberius, Augustus’ adopted son. However, the date of this statue is not certain; it was made a short time after Augustus’ victory over the Pathians in 20 A.D. The statue is 6 feet, 7 and half inches tallYou can tell this statue is of the Hellenic style because of his relaxed stance and idealized face. Augustus’ stance was a very popular and relaxed stance in the ancient times, it was called contrapposto, and the body’s weight was placed on one leg and the other leg is used as support. The breast plate on the statue represents many things, most of all his defeat and victory, it celebrates Augustus’ defeat over the parthians and the return of the Roman standards that were lost in 53 B.C.E., and the peace if the Roman people. Augustus of Prima Porta not only represents him as the founder of Rome and great leader, but also represents him as a god, although he is not wearing a crown. Augustus’ bare feet represent his heroic actions, in Rome mythology, heroes are always shown with bare feet to symbolize heroism. The cupid and the dolphin to the left represent the Julio-Claudian family descent from Venus, Augustus’ mother, and his adopted father Julius Ceaser. Cupid was also Augustus’ grandson. There are also very personal features about Ceaser Augustus in this statue, he has a broad head, deep set eyes, a formed mouth and petit chin. His face is also similar to the god Apollo and was meant to show his abilities of a powerful god.
However, even though roman was quite powerful among all state, but there is always have a worst state which isThe Fall of the Western Roman Empire (also called Fall of the Roman Empire or Fall of Rome) was the process of decline in the Western Roman Empire in which it failed to enforce its rule, and its vast territory was divided into several successor polities. The Roman Empire lost the strengths that had allowed it to exercise effective control; modern historians mention factors including the effectiveness and numbers of the army, the health and numbers of the Roman population, the strength of the economy, the competence of the Emperor, the religious changes of the period, and the efficiency of the civil administration. Increasing pressure from barbarians outside Roman culture also contributed greatly to the collapse. The reasons for the collapse are major subjects of the historiography of the ancient world and they inform much modern discourse on state failure.
Early Roman Republic art (500-200 B.C)art of the early Republic was profoundly influenced by the Greek art of Magna Graecia. This was the name given to the Greek colonies in Southern Italy, such as Cumae. These colonies were prosperous during the period of Etruscan domination of central Italy. In about 400 B.C., threatened by Sicilians and the newly-powerful Romans, the Greek settlements went into a period of disunity and poverty. For example of roman republic art such as, Mosaic, pottery and sculpture. When it comes to Roman empire art, the enduring image of Rome represents one of mankind's greatest collective achievements. Reflected in imperial art from the accession of the first Roman emperor Octavian (31bc), to the deposition of the last, Romulus Augustus (ad476), it was continued by the Byzantine dynasties ("emperors of the Romans" until 1453). and revived at intervals in the medieval and modern Western world. During the reign of Augustus (31bc-ad14), imperial art - whether in the context of public celebration or in the form of portraits of the sovereign - imperial art was promoted at even,' social and economic level and exported to the most distant bounds of the empire. This mood of ideological fervour permeated the art of the entire imperial era. When it comes to roman emperial style, the art of that period was represented like arches, bridges, aqueducts, roads, walled cities, and frontier fortresses.These construction were the conscious symbols of a mighty empire, the lasting and immutable traces of which are still to.
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However, even though roman was quite powerful among all state, but there is always have a worst state which isThe Fall of the Western Roman Empire (also called Fall of the Roman Empire or Fall of Rome) was the process of decline in the Western Roman Empire in which it failed to enforce its rule, and its vast territory was divided into several successor polities. The Roman Empire lost the strengths that had allowed it to exercise effective control; modern historians mention factors including the effectiveness and numbers of the army, the health and numbers of the Roman population, the strength of the economy, the competence of the Emperor, the religious changes of the period, and the efficiency of the civil administration. Increasing pressure from barbarians outside Roman culture also contributed greatly to the collapse. The reasons for the collapse are major subjects of the historiography of the ancient world and they inform much modern discourse on state failure.
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