Ancient Rome - Part 1
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The objective is to present the Hystory through Art, passing by Ancient Greece, Ancient Rome, The Middle Age, The Renaissance, The Baroque, The Romantism, The Enlightenment, The Pre-Modern Era, ...
The art of Ancient Greece is one of her greatest gifts to posterity.But when one thinks of Ancient Rome ...... her gladiators, her government, or perhaps her armies are the conspicuous mementos.
True, the vividly colored murals at Pompeii are spectacular. So are the murals in neighboring towns, also preserved by the eruption of
Vesuvius in 79 A.D.
But Pompeii and its neighbors were gay seaside resorts, only provincial cousins of Rome. According to descriptions by Roman historians, the wall paintings in Rome itself far surpassed these from Pompeii.
Indeed, it is probably because there is little else that survives to compare with it, that we prize the art of Pompeii and its neighbors so highly. Is this to say, then, that Roman art has little merit, that it is a second-rate rerun of the glorious Greek art which preceded it?
The relative merits of Greek and Roman art have been debated by scholars for centuries. Let's leave the debate to the scholars and turn instead to a more meaningful way in which all art may be judged: that is, as a reflection of the culture that produced it.
Just as pop art, like it or not, will give future ages a meaningful image of
our society and its values ...
... so Roman art is an excellent indicator of what mattered to people in Roman times. And just as our tastes change and develop in succeeding generations, so did those of Ancient Rome. The changes were reflected in simple things, like hair styles ... and dress ... and in more complicated things, like housing ... places of worship ... and imperial monuments.
Changes in taste can also be seen in portraiture--from the idealistic, on the
left, to the realistic on the right ... and in the subject matter depicted in household and public decoration from elaborate mythological scenes ... to simple decorative motifs. As you follow this brief discussion of the development and decline of Ancient Rome, you'll be able to spot many other aspects of this civilization where new ideas
supplanted old, and then often were returned to.
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| good video post more ( 8 months ago by darinda01) |
| good video post more |
| great ( 3 months ago by tkluvjbsomuch22) |
| great |
| My God - I felt ... ( 3 months ago by adecker31) |
| My God - I felt like I was back in second grade. |
| History is faulty ... ( 1 month ago by ruotze) |
| History is faulty here! The Latins were already there settled when the "Romans" arrived, most likeley from Athens (the failed athenian invasion of Sicily during the war with Sparta...or from Troy (as Roman history says). The Etruscans were from Anatolia. But to say they came from north of the Alps (Barbarians) is absurd! |
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| gays (the romans) ( 1 month ago by Armlight9) |
| gays (the romans) |
| you are correct. ... ( 3 weeks ago by mandangalo18) |
| you are correct. But were they already called the Latins? If I remember Livy correctly, Lavinium was the name of their territory, and their King Latinus. I have this idea that Aeneas called them Latins in honor of Latinus after his death? |
| You may be right. I ... ( 3 weeks ago by ruotze) |
| You may be right. I believe the early "Romans" were Greeks from the failed Sicilian campaign during the war with Sparta, or Trojans (as they themselves believed) because they had to adapt to not only the Latin language, but the Sabine women to create a society. They were primarily soldiers from elsewhere. |
| I also must point ... ( 3 weeks ago by mandangalo18) |
| I also must point out that Livy himself said he made little effort to demarcate fable from fact because of the difficulty of finding reliable sources of such ancient happenings. He also points out his own unwillingness to check disputes in his sources, even when the authoritative material is easily at his disposal. And the story of the Sabine women is quite entertaining. Steal the women! |
| dig it man. ( 3 weeks ago by blatttman) |
| dig it man. |
| ancient rome is wak. ( 1 week ago by ikeepitfunkie) |
| ancient rome is wak. |