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Roman art was mainly based on the work of the Greeks, but was involved with Egypt and Africa too. It is said that during the Roman war, bits and pieces of art flooded into the hands of the Romans giving them the love and inspiration for art. Yet there is another story which states that the Romans during the war against the Greeks went and stole many on the artifacts and Ideas. The art of the Romans began to develope and shape itself into into its own kind, the artists that created the masterpeices were actually Greek but had moved to Italy, other people state that the Greek artists were taken away from Greece and forced to live in Italy. The arts they had made were meant to show the authority and power they had. It was said that women wore colourful jewellery and clothes to inspire the Romans to create beautiful artworks. =====

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The types of artworks that they created included statues, murals, paintings, architecture, poems, tombstones, domes, vaults and big wall decorations. All of the artwork that they completed told a story about their lives and how they were feeling at the time. They tried to make there artworks fanciful, so you would want to see it again or buy it for a high price. They made their own paintbrushes using types of different natural resources that they had in hand which included reeds, wood, twigs and rushes a type of reed. They used these materials for these colours: Green was made from green soil, yellow and red was made from natural earth elements called ochre, blue was made from copper and glass, white was made from chalk, black from soot and purple from a special seashell. Any writing they needed to do was done using a shaped piece of wood or ivory. =====

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Many paintings and sulptures were made in honor of the Gods, Goddesses, Emperors and common people. The sulptures would only show the head and shoulders but they sometimes do the whole body. The Romans were not very good at sulpting or painting the human body, they would often make mistakes in the lengh of a body part such as the common one the nose. The Greeks thought this was a silly mistake as they made very well bodies and not many mistakes. These sulptures were made manily with bronze and marble though was also made with stone and other materials. =====

Modern Day Comparison
Roman art from the ancient times are still around today even though the Roman people from back then are not. Now when people paint in Rome they use different materials, for a paintbrush now we use wood or metal, polished with a horse tail end. When we buy paint now it is not made from the simple and natural things they had then but is made of chemicals and dyes. Even though some of the ancient Roman arts are still around they are not in such a good condition like they were years ago. The paint we use change the effect the image gives you, the sulptures they made then are not as perfected as the ones now because of the tools we use.

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