Portraiture is a dominant genre of Roman sculpture, growing perhaps from the traditional Roman emphasis on family and ancestors; the entrance hall of a Roman elite house displayed ancestral portrait busts.

2013年8月25日 · Roman sculpture blended the idealised perfection of Classical Greek sculpture with a greater aspiration for realism. It also absorbed artistic preferences and styles from the East to create images in stone and bronze which rank among the finest works from antiquity.

2019年9月2日 · Many artifacts and artworks survive from the Roman era. These are the seven sculptures essential to understanding the empire’s vast contributions to the history of art.

Roman sculpture’s strengths include portraiture, where they were less concerned with the ideal than the Greeks or Ancient Egyptians and created exceptionally characterful pieces, and narrative relief scenes.

Pliny, Ancient Rome's most important historian concerning the arts, recorded that nearly all the forms of art – sculpture, landscape, portrait painting, even genre painting – were advanced in Greek times, and in some cases, more advanced than in Rome.

2022年7月21日 · Some of the most famous Roman sculptures might include the Statue of Julius Caesar at the Via dei Fori Imperiali, Trajan’s Column at the Piazza Venezia, or the Sculptures of Ara Pacis at the Piazza Augusto Imperatore

Ancient Roman sculpture, unlike the more international Greek sculpture, is not noted for its beauty or decorative qualities. This is because Roman art was not made to be beautiful, it was made to impress. It was designed to awe and impress other nations with its gravitas and sense of power.

From celebratory statues to intricate mosaic panels, art was created for a wide variety of functions and contexts during the centuries that the Roman Empire reigned. Explore a few highlights from the Art Institute’s collection of ancient Roman art here.

2023年1月11日 · The famous Roman sculptures that its citizens left behind serve as a record of the Roman Empire’s history, which spanned many centuries and several continents.

Romans made sculptures of gods, heroes, emperors, generals and politicians. They also used sculpted images to adorn the capitals of columns and the helmets of gladiators. ["The Creators" by Daniel Boorstin] Roman sculptures often reflected the fashions and lifestyles that were prevalent when they were made.