Roman Art
古代ローマ美術 / c. 509 BCE–476 CE / Style / Historical Styles
Roman art absorbed Greek, Etruscan and provincial forms while joining individualized portraiture, continuous historical relief, architecture and wall painting to ancestry, civic life and imperial power.
Veristic portrait heads recording age and individual difference / Historical relief unfolding events in continuous scenes / Public architecture repeating arches, vaults and domes / Wall painting and mosaic opening rooms into fictive architecture and gardens
Dictionary entry
- Best used for
- Joining civic narrative, lineage and government through portraits, buildings and sequential scenes · Adding individual faces, urban space and engineered mass to a classical reference
- Type
- Use Roman-capital proportions for inscriptions and assign longer reading to a modern legible text face.
- Composition
- Set portraits and narrative scenes in an axial architectural frame, moving time through continuous horizontal bands.
- Material
- Separate the uses of marble, bronze, red-brown plaster and stone or glass mosaic, preserving differences in aging.
- Caution
- Copies of Greek statues and gladiator props are not enough. Look for individual portraiture, civic narrative and organized architectural space.
- Further study
- Roman imperial and provincial art / Veristic portraiture and historical relief / Pompeian wall painting, arches and vaults
Related entries
- Classical Greek Art (古典期ギリシャ美術)Same Historical Styles lineage.Compare Roman Art and Classical Greek Art
- Byzantine Art (ビザンティン美術)Same Historical Styles lineage.Compare Roman Art and Byzantine Art
More from Historical Styles
Continue through styles in the same Historical Styles family, prioritised by shared effects.
- Palladianism (パッラーディオ主義)Shared effects: Trust / Luxury.
- Baroque (バロック)Shared effects: Luxury / Trust.
- Beaux-Arts (ボザール様式)Shared effects: Trust / Luxury.
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