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In Rome, it seems that there were no sculptors from its own country in the early days, at least there are no historical records to record the existence of sculpture art in ancient Rome.

Judging from the background of its creation, sculpture-like works actually appeared as early as the Homer period, and ancient Greek sculpture also took a rough shape during this period.

The sculpture craft that first appeared in ancient Greece, because it originated in the city of Mycenae, is known as "Mycenae culture" in history.

At that time, the sculpture crafts were mostly used for wine vessel crafts, funerary objects, etc., and the sculpture materials were mostly animals.

Although there are fewer records in the Homer period, the emergence of Homer's epics has restored the social culture and spiritual outlook of the time relatively well.

The real beginning of ancient Rome was when ancient Rome conquered ancient Greece.

Secondly, the objective realism is different.

Roman sculpture is more realistic than ancient Greek sculpture.

During the Roman period, many military strategists or politicians were proud of the sculptors who created exclusive statues for them, and even the Romans often used sculptures to preserve the images of the dead.

In addition, Roman sculpture inherited and developed Greek sculpture.

Greek sculpture is beautiful and elegant, while Roman sculpture is magnificent and solemn in portrait sculpture and monument sculpture.

These portrait sculptures are not only similar in shape, but also pay great attention to expressing the character characteristics of the characters.

From the outside, ancient Rome conquered ancient Greece and was the creator and rebirth.

But looking at ancient Roman sculptures from the essence of development, it is not difficult to find that ancient Roman sculptures are actually the continuation and inheritance of ancient Greek sculptures.

The portraits of ancient Greece have a relatively single subject matter, and the content is also very simple and primitive, but it is the origin of all artistic portraits.

Ancient Greek portraits are mostly mythological figures and stories.

At the very beginning, ancient Rome had great religious beliefs.

The most important of these is the ancient Romans' respect for their ancestors, mainly because the ancient Romans had a strong patriarchal concept.

Therefore, in every Roman family, a room is set up to enshrine the statues and masks of the ancestors, and it is believed that the spirits of the ancestors often come to the home and bless the family members.

People enshrine wax-mold masks made from faces of the deceased, or statues made of masks.

The ancient Romans would enshrine wax figures to participate in the ceremony when there were certain major events and celebrations.

It is precisely because of this special religious belief that ancient Roman portrait sculptures prevailed.

To understand the role of the iconography in ancient Greece, one must delve into European history.

European civilization is different from our civilization.

Europeans hold the attitude and concept of the world to mythology.

On the other hand, Chinese people hold more attitudes and concepts of being born or avoiding the world when it comes to mythology.

The original intention of the ancient Greek Games and the celebration of the winners was to know the decision of God and the grace of eternal protection of God, so the appearance of the winners will be made into statues.

Therefore, we will find that all the portraits in ancient Greece are directly or indirectly related to mythological stories.

In addition, ancient Greek civilization was a city-state system.

Conquests between city-states are normal. In order to make their city-states obey their own dispatches and give the army confidence to fight against the enemy, each leader uses the gods in myths to help or support himself.

In daily life, rulers use it to educate the people and promote virtue by embodying mythological stories—carving stories on portraits.

As Professor Gombrich explained in detail in his book "The Story of Art".

The statue of Lysippos, for example, may look more like a god than Alexander himself, the conqueror of Asia.

This further shows that Alexander's image is a combination of archetypes and political, mythological, realistic and cultural needs.

Reflected from the side, in the hearts of people at that time, Alexander was the object of God's blessing and the human agent chosen by the goddess of war Athena.

Looking straight ahead, putting on a mythical cloak, respecting the original meaning, and carrying forward traditional virtues are the biggest characteristics of ancient Greek portraits.

Sculpture artists in the classical period mainly took the construction of portraits with beautiful bodies as the first consideration.

For medieval sculptors, especially Gothic and Norman artists, these were means rather than ends.

Their purpose is to narrate religious stories more moving and convincing.

In terms of figure sculpture, when the ancient Greek people held a grand sports meeting, sculptors would carve bronze statues for the athletes.

These competitions are closely related to the religious beliefs and ceremonies of the nation.

As we all know, the participants in the ancient Greek Games were all members of the famous Greek nobles.

Winning in the competition will be regarded by everyone as the protection and blessing of the gods, and the winners need to constantly express their gratitude to the gods.

From the perspective of artistic ideas, there are two notable artistic ideas in Greek artistic thought.

One is that the works are often endowed with idealism, which was revered and revered in ancient Greece.

Artists are open-minded and innovative, so their works often express idealism.

The second is to attach importance to human values ​​and humanistic concepts, and highly praise the beauty of human nature.

From his works, it is not difficult to see the aesthetic characteristics and artistic concepts conveyed by ancient Greek artists.

And this spirit has been nurturing the development of Western art history.

In ancient Greek sculpture, there are many exquisite and great works of art left to the world.

There are several notable artistic concepts in ancient Roman sculptures. First, most of the artistic themes are noble emperors, so the works are often endowed with aristocratic atmosphere.

The second is the extreme pursuit of truth in the thinking of the ancient Romans, and this thought is also reflected in the works. Most of the ancient Roman works try their best to restore the truth.

For the understanding of beauty, every era has its own views and understandings, and even everyone has their own opinions.

The view of beauty in ancient Rome was to highlight the object’s ornaments, eyes, mental outlook, scars and even distorted limbs on the basis of respecting the object’s prototype as much as possible.

The understanding of beauty in the Middle Ages was the same gorgeous costumes, portraits of people with the same face, magnificent churches, tall and neat flowers and trees, and eternally peaceful and kind gods.

The purpose of this approach is to reflect the greatness of the Holy See and the powerful power of each kingdom.

They use it to enlighten people and believers, and draw comfort and teaching from it.

As we all know, different eras have different sculpture arts.

Since the Renaissance era, all the important monuments in the West that represent heroes and emperors and generals are none other than this image.

The production of equestrian statues came into being, an indispensable item in the classical tradition.

From the mercenary captains of the Renaissance to the monarchs such as Louis XIV and Peter the Great, all of them are commemorated with equestrian statues. Its origin lies in the Roman Empire.

Ancient Roman sculpture followed the tradition of ancient Greek sculpture, but was more secular, thus taking a more solid step on the road of realism.

In portrait works, sculptors first pursue the realistic appearance of models, and pay attention to the portrayal of characters' personalities.