(200 B.C) Roman Art

-Influenced by Greek art
-Rome- centre of civilization
-Romans – good soldiers, planners, administrators and engineers
-Love later naturalistic styles of Greek art
-Took Greek art, copied the ones that are to big to take:
Venus de Milo and Discabolus… copies of Greek art
-Writing is from roman times
They built:
Roads
Baths
Theaters
Aqueducts
Roman Architects
-Used Greek posts and lintel system and arch system
-Also used arches, vaults and domes
-Interior ad important as exterior
-Developed concrete
-Round building roofed with domes e.g. the Pantheon



Pompejanischer Maler um 60 v. Chr.
"Villa dei Misteri a Pompei"
60/50 BCE
Fresco, 162 cm