Classical Studies 2200 Lecture : Roman Art and Architecture

• School: Western University
• Department: Classical Studies
• Course: Classical Studies 2200
• Professor: Christopher Brown

Document Summary

Very interested in both public and private art but also interested in very public statements (colossal statue of. As in the greek world, art can be broadly divided into public and private. Private art was decorative, and intended for personal use and public art was also decorative, but regularly with a commemorative and sometimes symbolic function (reflects the ideology of the people who set it up) Private patronage of artists played a more prominent role in rome than in greece because there were lots of elite. Romans with a lot of money who wanted to make their own kinds of personal statements and roman ideas about art and artistic styles were influenced by numerous cultures. The greeks like lists and the romans likes big monumental statements. Ancient works of art have been discovered from all points of the roman empire from archaeological digs and the.