05-04-2007, 08:54 AM
Fair comment, Tarbicus,...........up to a point!
Neither ancient egyptian culture nor ( I think) Sri Lankan/Indian culture is the same as Roman...and I notice you didn't mention the Pompeii painting earlier in the thread.
You have to look at contemporary Roman Art to judge 'style'.
Certainly it is possible your point is quite correct - other cultures used a 'flat' style of painting on 3D sculptures - but you simply cannot compare, in terms of artistic sophistication, crude Egyptian painting/sculpture with Classical Greek/Roman. In fact, in one sense, your point argues against you - the Egyptian statues look like Egyptian paintings -stiff and flat, and similar in style.
Isn't it likely therefore that Roman statues were painted in styles contemporary with paintings of the period ???
regards, Paullus Scipio/ Paul McDonnell-Staff
Neither ancient egyptian culture nor ( I think) Sri Lankan/Indian culture is the same as Roman...and I notice you didn't mention the Pompeii painting earlier in the thread.
You have to look at contemporary Roman Art to judge 'style'.
Certainly it is possible your point is quite correct - other cultures used a 'flat' style of painting on 3D sculptures - but you simply cannot compare, in terms of artistic sophistication, crude Egyptian painting/sculpture with Classical Greek/Roman. In fact, in one sense, your point argues against you - the Egyptian statues look like Egyptian paintings -stiff and flat, and similar in style.
Isn't it likely therefore that Roman statues were painted in styles contemporary with paintings of the period ???
regards, Paullus Scipio/ Paul McDonnell-Staff
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Paul McDonnell-Staff
(It is a sweet and proper thing to die for ones country)
"No son-of-a-bitch ever won a war by dying for his country. He won it by making the other poor dumb bastard die for his country" - George C Scott as General George S. Patton
Paul McDonnell-Staff
