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Ancient Ancient PortraiturePortraiture

Ancient portraits Ancient portraits were created via were created via sculpture, typically sculpture, typically marble, bronze, or marble, bronze, or terra cotta busts. terra cotta busts.

Generally, only high Generally, only high ranking officials ranking officials were honored with were honored with busts.busts.

Greek Style of Greek Style of SculptureSculpture• Greeks Greeks

attempted to attempted to represent the represent the ideal image of ideal image of humanityhumanity – no wrinkles, no wrinkles,

signs of age, signs of age, pain, or joypain, or joy

– subjects appear subjects appear to be contentto be content Kritos

Greek Style of Greek Style of SculptureSculpture

• In addition to In addition to the ideal form the ideal form of humanity, of humanity, Greek Greek sculpture is sculpture is also also characterized characterized by smooth by smooth lines.lines.

Greek Style of Greek Style of SculptureSculpture

Roman Style of Roman Style of SculptureSculpture

• Romans Romans attempted to attempted to represent the represent the true image of true image of humanityhumanity – wrinkles, signs wrinkles, signs

of age, illness, of age, illness, and wealth or and wealth or poverty are poverty are reflectedreflected

Roman Style of Roman Style of SculptureSculpture

• In addition to In addition to the true, the true, realistic form realistic form of humanity, of humanity, Roman Roman sculpture is sculpture is also also characterized characterized by rough lines.by rough lines.

Roman Style of Roman Style of SculptureSculpture

Compare Greek Compare Greek and Roman Stylesand Roman Styles

Which is Which is Greek and Greek and

which is which is Roman?Roman?

Compare Greek and Compare Greek and Roman StylesRoman Styles

Which is Which is Greek and Greek and

which is which is Roman?Roman?

Roman FrescoesRoman Frescoes

• In addition to In addition to sculptures, the sculptures, the Romans also Romans also decorated decorated homes with homes with elaborate elaborate paintings, paintings, called frescoes.called frescoes.

Roman FrescoesRoman Frescoes• Most Roman Most Roman

homes lacked homes lacked windows, and so windows, and so frescoes provided frescoes provided the Romans with the Romans with images of nature images of nature and the and the outdoors.outdoors.

• Often frescoes Often frescoes appeared as appeared as windowswindows

Classical Classical ArchitectureArchitecture

• The most The most common common classical classical architectural architectural feature is the feature is the column.column.

• DoricDoric• IonicIonic• CorinthianCorinthian

The Doric ColumnThe Doric Column

• Characterized as Characterized as masculine in masculine in formform

• Possesses a Possesses a large base with a large base with a thick column and thick column and a simple capital a simple capital

The Doric ColumnThe Doric Column

The Ionic ColumnThe Ionic Column

• Characterized as Characterized as feminine in formfeminine in form

• Possesses a Possesses a small base, a small base, a slender column slender column with a scroll-like with a scroll-like capitalcapital

The Ionic The Ionic ColumnColumn

The Corinthian The Corinthian ColumnColumn• Characterized Characterized

as feminineas feminine

• Possesses a Possesses a small base, a small base, a slender column slender column with an ornate, with an ornate, flower-like, flower-like, capital capital

The The Corinthian Corinthian ColumnColumn

Compare the Three Compare the Three Orders of ColumnsOrders of Columns

Which column Which column is Doric, Ionic, is Doric, Ionic,

and and Corinthian?Corinthian?

The Roman Arch

• Greeks used the Greeks used the arch, but arch, but discarded it discarded it because they because they believed it to be believed it to be “inelegant.” “inelegant.”

The Roman Arch• Romans made Romans made

extensive use extensive use of the arch: of the arch: temples, temples, aqueducts, aqueducts, monuments of monuments of triumph, and triumph, and even the even the Colosseum.Colosseum.

The Roman ArchThe Roman Arch

• Romans Romans invented the invented the dome, an arch dome, an arch which has been which has been rotated 360 rotated 360 degrees degrees

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