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Roman Art Do you know how the Romans put together a mosaic? The paintings the Roman made were very common. Grand hones, villas, temples had painting of goddesses and gods. The murals were decorated with frescoes. If you do not know what frescoes are they were long lasting paint. The paintings stayed bright and clear because of frescoes. Romans believed that portraits that contained the spirit of the person in the painting, and if he or she is disgraced the will be scratched out! Most Romans also had galleries of ancestors. Romans thought Greeks were amazing sculptors. Greek copied masterpieces and made their own, so they made studios in roman. Soon they made sculptures from bronze then stone ad then marble. Sculptures were also a way of showing people how powerful a ruler is. So on the sculpture for the ruler sculptures they added wrinkles, double chins, and warts.

Augustus, an emperor introduced a new way for leaders to be sculpted handsome. Sculpture work is usually crowded full of action. If armor was shown on the sculpture it meant that the person was a military ruler. If gods were included to the sculpture it meant that they were involved with gods. Also some Roman seemed to believe that having an image or sculpture of a person’s face so it could keep the person’s soul happy so it does not haunt them after they die. There was also a lot of wall painting to decorate the walls of houses.