Cro-Roman Art's Influence On American Culture

When one thinks of Roman architecture, many things come to mind, such as arches, columns, statues, and richly covered surfaces in marbles. One must stop to think that this empire, which gained power and influence in the first century BC, must have been influenced from the thousands of years of cultures preceding them in order to create their masterpieces of ingenuity. This phenomenon can be seen in our borrowing of ideas of ancient Greece and Rome for the construction of our capitol buildings in the United States. The Romans surely considered design principles of other cultures when developing their buildings, since daily conquests of new lands opened Roman soldiers’ eyes to innovations from the great vastness of their empire. This

Catherine McManus 10/9/14 Senior Religion The origin of France dates back to the first evidence of ancestors of humans 2 million year ago. Theses beings were called homo erectus, meaning “to put up” or “set up right”. Cavemen, known as Neanderthals, showed up in about 100,000 BC. Humans as we know them today, however, were not evident in prehistoric France, known as Gaul, until about 40,000 years ago.

The scope of this report is to investigate how and why the Greeks influenced Roman culture. To achieve this, I will support my discussion with a set of specific examples. Lastly, as I have a personal interest in museum studies, I will briefly answer the question: 'Was it theft? Did the Romans really loot Greek art, and what for? '.

In my opinion one of the most monumental things to happen to the world outside of the United States has to be the renaissance. The reason being is that it shaped to world of art to the sophisticated way it is today. It sculpted Europe into the great country it is today.It was also the same time the bubonic plague happened with infected and killed about 50 million people and changed the religious belief for many people. Maybe you still don't think the death of so many people or the growth of Europe was one of the single most important things to happen out of America but this essay surely will change your mind.

I believe that the Romans made the greatest contributions to modern society and spread Greece’s legacy beyond the Mediterranean. This belief can be seen as I explore how each culture’s aspects of beauty (sculpture), architecture, and military conquest shaped those that followed. The ideals of beauty in

The Renaissance era served as an impact to the development of our modern day American society including the cultures plus the creative expressions we have today. The influence gave light to individualism of humans providing unique approach to every idea set forth and side tracked the dominant ideals that were heavily followed by the church. Although religion has always been a major part of all civilizations and cultures even throughout the Renaissance period, the potential that every individual has was acknowledged and when science came into existence it shaped western civilizations which it is still carried out in today’s contemporary American culture (Teaford, 1990). Main beliefs of impracticality in areas like art, culture and literature

The Roman Republic is famous for many events, people, and histories. In fact, there have been numerous excavations in which a variety of pottery, paintings, mosaics, statues, and coinage have been discovered from the Republic era of Rome. These numerous items have been analyzed and written about for the purpose of identifying their beauty and creation during the time in which they were made. However, there use as and influence as propaganda has not been fully analyzed. While there might be slight hints in artwork created during the republic area, it is not an area on which many historians have addressed in great depth with specific artworks. (explain why they should and how it would help with the greater overall standing of Roman history / Republic)

In order to understand the influence that classical Roman art and architecture had on Christian art and architecture, we need to compare and contrast the Constantinian periods. During the pre-Constantinian period, the Christian churches resembled Roman architecture as services were performed in typical homes. To accommodate the congregation, adjacent walls were torn down to combine two rooms for religious practices to take place. The exterior of the homes were unchanged.

Even though the Romans had Greek influences their architecture was unlike anything that had come before it. Through the discovery of concrete, arches and vaulting the Roman’s architecture differed from the Egyptians, Greeks and Persians. The Egyptians, Greeks and Persians all had impressive architecture and were impressive when viewed from the outside. The Romans however began to create wondrous interiors which reflected the roman identity where what a human holds inside them is the most important and what is on the outside is

I learned that the earliest form of art began in Africa approximately two million years ago. It was interesting to find out that the work of art was an engraved ochre that had lines as if it was crossed hatches (Page 241). I also found out that other pieces of art were discovered from cave paintings to human like figurines either carved or molded by clay. Egypt had similar views their art was many of humans most higher ranking. Later, Greece began creating work of art that honored an individual’s achievements that consisted of a life-sized, freestanding either nude male or clothed woman. Most of their art involved classical art which meant it restrained emotion (256-257). Then along came the Romans which their art was tied into architecture and the engineering. They created structure such as, The Colosseum and Pantheon these structures both had similar things they had arches and columns yet, the Pantheon had a high

Moving forward, about 15,000 years, in 1940, the discovery of a cave, located on a hill overlooking the valley of Vèzére in southwestern France, was made. This cave had minor openings and slender passages that lead to massive rooms with cave walls that were used to make drawing and paint pictures on. The walls were made of “white calcite” (Looney) and media used,

Art was highly regarded and developed by the Romans who commissioned and patronized works of architecture, music, painting, sculpture and even metalworking and gem engraving. The earliest specimens of Roman art can be dated to the establishment of the Republic in 509BC; with its expansion and subsequent influx of people and ideas in the capital, Rome unabashedly adopted a variety of cultural influences. While Greek influence was especially strong, the Romans blended Etruscan and Egyptian elements. Painting and sculpture were especially appreciated; the first being a two-dimensional form that can have a background to set the mood and help tell the story, while the second being a three-dimensional

Cave Art has been a popular form of art during prehistoric period with there being records of rock art in a variety of various places ranging from Africa, Asia and Australia to Europe and the Americas. Some of the earliest example of cave art goes back as far as 40,000 years ago in Europe with “200 cave painting sites found in France” (Kelly and Thomas, 2016, p.255) such as the Cave of Niaux, as well as Creswell Crags in England and the Cave of El Castillo in Spain as well as a variety of others. Throughout the world a common imagery is seen in the paintings with them being consisted of animals and very little of actual humans, the reason for this type of imagery is not known hence why the interpretation of upper Palaeolithic cave art has been a disputed topic resulting in a variety of theories being constructed in order to explain the existence of the cave art which were constructed. Over time there has been many theories which have been accepted and rejected, however there has not been one agreed general idea, some of the popular ideas which have been established although are that the paintings were set to establish boundary markers, to be used as part of hunting magic / shamanism or they may have just simply have been art to admire. Yet there has been no certain answer established as each theory seems to be continuously disregarded and soon replaced with another, however as time as gone on people have begun to not try and answer this question as they believe that it is

Greek and Roman civilizations have created some of the most inveterate and meaningful images in history. The art of building that arouse on the shores of the Aegean Sea and flourished at the ancient world .Greeks were governed through democracy while romans were republicans .the Romans borrowed and adapted the Greek style. They sanctified the same Greek Gods but gave them different names. They both concentrated on using their structural concepts that match their ideal ratios. And as any two consecutive, greatly attached civilizations .there are many points of comparisons regarding their building types, building techniques, materials and art. As long as the presence of differences there are many similarities that actually exist.

In the previous studies in unit 6, we learned that Romans were in influenced by Greeks in so many ways and among others was in the works of Art where the Romand began adorning their buildings with Greek ornaments (Morey, 1901). Generally, the Romans have drawn architectural inspiration from the Etruscans as well as the Greeks.