A Study of Roman Wall Paintings
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 22 พ.ค. 2024
- Roman wall paintings have important Greek and Italic precedents. We explore the early history of Roman wall paintings, followed by an in-depth review of the famous Four Pompeian styles (200 BCE- 79 CE). We'll also examine contemporary frescoes produced in Rome.
0:00 Introduction
0:42 Ancient Sources and lost paintings
2:25 Alexander Mosaic
3:26 Nile Mosaic
3:45 Vergina, Tomb of the Fabii, Roman colors, the 4 Pompeian Styles explained
6:06 First Style (House of Sallust, Faun, Samnite)
6:56 Second Style (Oplontis, House of Griffins, Brescia sanctuary, Villa of Mysteries, Boscoreale, House of Livia, House of Augustus, Villa Farnesina, Villa of Livia at Prima Porta)
10:07 Third Style (Boscotrecase, Pyramid of Cestius)
10:51 Fourth Style (Vettii, Fronto, Domus Transitoria, Domus Aurea)
12:19 Different genres depicted
12:46 Introduction to Part 2: 2-4th century wall paintings
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My dream home has always been a modest Roman villa, with a central own garden and rooms on either side lined with columns.. now I must incorporate the use of murals and tromp l’oeil and incorporating them into my drawings! Just a hobby, I have the plans drawn already!
Like my house on Sunset Cliffs in San Diego, I have a modest Romanesque villa, pool, statuary, artwork, and frescoes, all reproductions of course
Roman art blew anything away before and after it
I’m very interested in the topic of Roman wallpainting, I even painted a room in my house in a design after the Villa Farnesina frescoes.
wow!
Absolutely fantastic! 👍🏻
Thank you!
Sadly, almost all were lost. What few that do remain are fascinating! Thank you for showing these! 👍
The few end up being MANY if you consider we just showed a fraction of what is visible to the public. More to be shared in the future!
The true loss is all the Greek art that didn't make it through time. They did it first, on the wings of victory.
@@Breakfast_of_Champions can you not appreciate the more advanced roman paintings? The Romans improved and made it art to the best level of all
@@Breakfast_of_Champions who cares enjoy the much better Roman art
I’ve always been partial to The Third Style, which is characterized by usually white or light-colored panels each showcasing a painting of a delicate style. Garlands, lamps, vases/urns etc., appear frequently and I think this is the style that most influenced Robert Adam, my favorite architect/decorator ever. I love his Neoclassical style.
Yes truly refined!
It's fascinating to see how modern this is compared to the art of the Middle Ages which began centuries later.
Watch every video the moment they come out
thank you!
How I wish it were possible for one to give the same video multiple likes! 😊
Thank you!
I can’t wait to see the next level of Roman wall painting style .
so excited and thank you for all your efforts.
Thank you- coming later this summer
Thank you very much for your contribution to culture! 🏛🥇
Love this. Seen a few of them.
Very interesting video! I looked with pleasure! Thanks for sharing!
Can not wait for the follow up video!
Stay tuned- later this summer!
Thanks so much for your knowledgeable and concise commentary, it brings these amazing buildings to life.
Thank you!
I am not an educated admirer of art, but I have always been struck by the amount of life in the art from ancient Rome. When the Empire fell, however you choose to define it, art became so dreary...I feel compelled to live life to the fullest when seeing art from the age of Julius Caesar, but am ready to lie down in the path of a garbage truck when seeing what the Christians produced in later centuries.
Amazing! So fun to see.
Thank you!
A little restoration of the damaged parts would be desirable.
Thank you
Thanks for watching!
An excellent video with very well thought out commentary. The only thing I would like to suggest for future videos would be if you could please reposition your microphone when recording as its current location tends to result in a "thumpy" sound quality and occasionally, exhaling is heard. It's especially noticeable because your sound equipment is already quite good. I am not a professional sound engineer, but perhaps relocating the microphone at an angle to your mouth or, if you don't already use one, a wind filter might be benefical. Switching in a high-pass filter or reducing the microphone amplifier gain might also help.
Yes appreciate it- was with an alternate sound system that we won't be using again!
Interesting
amazing how a destructive volcano can preserve so much history
I think it’s great that they put a high-quality reproduction of the Alexander Mosaic back in situ in its villa. I think the landscaping has been reproduced from the Roman originals, based on the extensive research that was done on the original plantings. Yes, it’s “modern”, landscaping, but it is based on what was there originally, at the time of the Vesuvian eruption that buried the city.
Such a fantastic initiative. Great use of a copy!
I am not clear on the DIFFERENCES between the second and fourth styles. Please elaborate.
Thank you for the explanations. I visited these places without knowing the four styles - even though I studied ancient art history in university.
2nd is all about the realistic architectural framework for individual genre panels ... 4th style is more playful with that framework and includes several types of genre paintings within the less realistic architectural renderings.
@@AncientRomeLive OK. Thanks!
I never made it to Italy or beyond to indulge in the "lift" I always get when seeing ancient art. In the case of Pompeii and the surrounding region of human occupation, with the earthquake preceding the eruption of Vesuvius and the Big One itself sealing the city and region up, restoring those frescoes and the wall art in valued rooms that survived, I'm left stubbornly questioning the wisdom of leaving all that in its original form, intact. Vesuvius is overdue for her next hissy fit and I might just pass out from overwhelming grief to know all those painstakingly restored and refurbished examples of The 4 Styles, et al, got buried in volcanic products all over again. I'm thinking that squirreling the originals away from the worst seismic and volcanic zone for safety would be a better strategy. Am I out in left field here? Also, is there any evidence of good old fashioned spontaneous inspirational expression in the old empire or were the edicts of fashion so demanding of Romans (like those fanatically disciplined Egyptians!) that it perhaps didn't even occur to anyone? I would, just once, love to see some really iconoclastic examples of the equivalence of, say, Pablius Picassus, etc. I love the channel, btw!
Thanks so much for your comments. Many of the "best" works were cut out centuries ago and are now on display in the National archaeological museum of Naples. The best thing - from a conservation standpoint - is to preserve the frescoes in the original location.. Yes, Vesuvius will erupt again, sooner or later, but there's too much to remove and put into a museum. And no plans to do so..
Thank you for this and your other surprisingly excellent videos! It's rare to get such a deep and well founded dive as merely a fascinated layman. Despite being already subsribed to many history channels, yours was only recommended after I banished many bitcoin crooks and political haters from the suggestions on the right.
Great to hear.. Ph.D. knowledge is what we are all about, produced for short videos! And we make all of our videos with original content filmed on location. Not sure how we can get the TH-cam algorithm understand the value of that!!
@@AncientRomeLive Exactly, I greatly appreciate the expert level knowledge. TH-cam is swamped with amateurs but the sensationalist clickbaiters are the worst. One has to find the raisins in the cake...
When is next video
don’t understand why bc and ad are not used its very confusing date-wise
Honestly, its' something we are wrestling with..For academia and Darius' TV documentaries, the insistence is on BCE, CE... But for most people BC, AD seem to still be the norm... We have yet to nail down our own policy, so please bear with us!
@@AncientRomeLive Why not just bracket it at least one would then see it.
please dwell a bit longer on the paintings, your pace is too fast, thank you
No Greek wall painting of any note survives but Greek painters were more celebrated than the sculptors and we know the influence that Greek sculpture had on Rome
Yes, we know greek sculpture was a template for roman one as much we do know ( better HISTORY OF ART teaches) the greek painters were not celebrated at all ( maybe they were in your childish bias), quite understandable looking at their manufacts survived that are infinitely of lower quality & artistic value compared with the Roman masterpiecing paintings. And if your pathetic envy of the Romans' greatness is not satisfied yet, we could talk of architecture, a field the ancient greeks were wild primitive if we look at the best architects in human history, the Romans...-:) !
“4th century BC”
What’s annoying is your use of BCE!!! It’s BC and AD!!! Jesus is King!
Sodom and gahmora were destroyed because of their sexual perversion. Bible doesn't mention this old city but looking at some of the perverted paintings probably met same demise
I wonder what is going on at 13:13. The guy on the right is having his privates handled. But further to the right a woman is coming over with a knife? Did Romans get circumcised?
People give Roman art it's due not the lifeless sterile Greek stuff. Enuff of this fake Greek copy lies. Can't you accept that they are roman originals and not greek. Sick of this greek copy lie nonsense. Stop undermining Roman art and quality.
Greek stuff is old boring news
It's a bit annoying to hear the noise of the air hitting your microphone while you're talking.