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Roman Art part 2

Painting and Mosaic

Atrium of the house of the silver wedding

  • from early 1st century BC
  • more paintings than in Egyptian houses
  • many colors (green, red, black and white
  • special preperation of wall (marble dust placed in several layers until dense

4 styles

1. incrustation- divides wall by using bright, solid colors and texture

  • follows Hellenistic Practice (Samnite house)

2. Architechtural- not restricted to one visual plane

  • made room look like it etends outside (columns, windows, landscape...)

3. Herringbone perspective

Orthogonals- lines of perspective projection

in this perspective the orthogonals differ from greek because they dont meet at one point in horizon.

Villa of the Mysteries

  • From 50 BC
  • similar to architechtural style
  • painting confined to small "protruding" ledge
  • might symbolize celebration of rites to Dionysos
  • might connect to Christianity? How?
  • Shows gradual tramsformation to Oriental Spiritualism
  • not known is this is original or copy

Odyssey Landscapes

  • 1st century BC
  • scenes from Homer's Oydessy represented
  • 2nd style starts to fade

3rd style- Ornate

Brings paintings into room through window like pictures. No more fake architechtural views on walls

Garden Scene

  • Late1st century BC
  • similar to Odyssey Landscapes
  • brings landscapes into room (2nd style)

Painting from Villa at Boscotrecase

  • Early 1st century AD
  • confined to smaller space
  • emphasizes flat surface

4th style- intricate

Ixion Room

  • 1st century AD
  • creates aerial perspective
  • uses all previous styles of wall painting
  • cannot be seen from just one angle

Painting from Domus Aurea

  • AD 60-67
  • more attention on placing panels
  • avoids crowding unlike Ixion Room

Still Life With Peaches

C AD 50

  • Artists works from a model
  • understands light
  • Similar to works of Cezanne

Genre Scene from The House of Dioscuri

  • 1st Century AD
  • start of Imprassionism
  • solutions from common problems like: attitude, movement and proportion

Herakles and Telephos

  • C AD 70
  • most likely copied from Hellenistis Original
  • might have been inspired by altar of zeus and Athena
  • not proportionate figures

Mosaics-

  • wanted to copy image and technique of artist
  • started applying to walls
  • tesserae-( bits of glass or stone composing mosaic) were extremly small

The Battle of Issus

  • c 80 Bc
  • copy of a painting by philoxenos of eretria
  • REpresents Alexander the Great going to Battle
  • figures are sculpturesque

Baths of NEptune

  • 2nd Century AD
  • many mythological water creatures
  • black figues on white ground
  • curvinlinear forms = movement of sea

use of mosaics on walls helped prevent erosion and permited the use of smalto (glass paste) and other fragile materials

House of Neptune and Amphitrite

C AD 70

use of smalto produces bright blue color

many murlas used the encaustic technique and some more rarely used tempera ( pigments in egg yolk)

Mummy Portrait of a MAn

  • c ad 160-170
  • personality seen
  • burial mask
  • found in Faiyum
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