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The Roman architecture
The practical spirit of the town prevails in the architectonic works, on which
the Greek arquitrabados systems with the solutions in arc and vault are based.
He interests to make works useful, according to principles that we know
fundamentally through the text of Vitrubio, which contributes to the uniformity
of the architectonic models in any place of the Romanized world. This
architecture, on the other hand, has to respond to the spirit of hugeness, order
and permanence that the political government governs. Photo: Amphitheatre Flávio
or Roman Coliseum, año72 a.c. The architecture of old Rome and its empire that
in its period of maximum apogee extended from the British islands to the Caspian
Sea. The more primitive Roman Art began with the overthrow of the Etruscan kings
and the establishment of the republic 509 year a.C. It is considered that the
end of the Roman Art, and therefore the beginning of the medieval art, arrived
with the conversion of Constantine emperor at the Christianity and with the
transfer of the capital of the empire from Rome at Constantinople in year 330.
Nevertheless, the Roman style and their thematic pagan Romans even continued
imagining during centuries, often under impromptu Christian. The Roman Art is
divided traditionally in two periods: the art of republican Rome and the one of
imperial Rome (from 27 year a.C. in ahead), with subdivisions corresponding to
the most important emperors or the different dynasties. At the time of the
republic, the Roman term is practically applied to the art made in the city of
Rome that conserves the track of its Etruscan past. Little by little, the art
was freed of its Etruscan inheritance, thanks to the expansion through Italy and
the Mediterranean and as the Romans assimilated other cultures like the Greek.
During both last centuries before the birth of Christ a Roman way arose
typically to construct buildings, to make sculptures and to paint. Nevertheless,
due to the extraordinary geographic extension of the Roman Empire and to its
diverse settlers, the Roman art and the architecture were always eclectic and
they were characterized to use different styles attributable to the regional
tastes and the preferences of its patrons. The Roman Art is not only the art of
the emperors, senators and patricios, but also the one of all the inhabitants of
the vast Roman empire, including a the middle-class of the liberties,
businessmen or plebian, slave and legionary of Italy and their province. ,
although a great amount of sculptures examples subsists, pictorial,
architectonic and peculiarly decorative, we know few names its artists and
architects. In general the Roman monuments were made to glorify their patrons
more than to express the artistic sensitivity of their creators.
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