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PAINGTINGS FROM THE ROMAN ERA Crisa Mae Castañarez Cyhryll Jazz Dujali Fricsy Racho  INTRODUCTION Most of the paintings in this era were copied or imitated from Hellenic Greek paintings. Fresco technique was used in brightly c...

PAINGTINGS FROM THE ROMAN ERA Crisa Mae Castañarez Cyhryll Jazz Dujali Fricsy Racho  INTRODUCTION Most of the paintings in this era were copied or imitated from Hellenic Greek paintings. Fresco technique was used in brightly colored backgrounds; division of the wall into a multiple rectangular areas (tic-tac-toe design); multi-point perspective; and a tropme-l’-oeil effect. Roman paintings have a wide variety of subjects, animals, everyday life, still life, mythological subjects, portraits, and landscapes. The development of landscape painting is the main innovation of Roman painting from Greek painting. — It is the heir of Greek painting — Finality: decorate houses and palaces  INTRODUCTION There were two kinds of paintings On wall: it is fresco On wood: it is temple It has a wide range of colours: black, while, red, yellow and sometimes blue, purple, green Colours were mixed with water and sometimes with glue Sometimes perspective was used.  THEME Any kind of subject was depicted: - Daily life - Mythology - War - Erotic -Comical Freedom of costumes made possible the depiction of nudes THE ONLY PAINTING KNOWN IS WALL PAINTING (FRESCO) FOUR STYLES HAVE BEEN IDENTIFIED IT WAS FOUND IN POMPEII HERCULANEUM STABIA PALATINO ROME MOSAICS WHERE FOUND IN VILLAS IN DIFFERENT PLACES, BEING SPECIALLY RICH THE SOUTH OF ITALY AND SICILY.  FIRST STYLE Incrustations Mid 2nd century to early 1st century BC It imitated the marble decoration of the Hellenistic period It is colourful and of sumptuous aspect The wall is divided in three parts: Basis, imitating granite Middle, imitating marble Cornice, ended in stucco  SECOND STYLE ARCHITECTONICAL — 1st century BC (Cesar’s times) — It imitates architectures, including perspective — It is frequent the depiction of windows from where buildings can be seen — It tends to dissolve the wall — It is a Roman style  THIRD STYLE Mixed or Ornamental Until mid 1st century AD It is a mix of the former two styles It is characterized by: — Light ornamental elements — Fantastic building Friezes with children — Style vegetables — Animals — Mythological scenes — It is full of intense colours More common in Rome than in Pompeii.  FOURTH STYLE Illusionist or Stenographic c It lasted until the end of 1st century AD It took elements from second and third styles It is more complicate, with mythological and historical scenes It is very recharged Curtains are common Landscape is depicted  EASEL PAINTING Subjects: — History — Landscape — Daily life — Animals — Portrait The best examples are the funerary portraits of El Fayum  MOSAIC PAINTING — It was common decorating the floors of domus and villas — The technique consisted of combining small pieces of glass or stones called tesella — There were others in which bigger and irregular pieces of stone were used. Motives are varied, the same as in painting and they normally