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Roman fresco from the Tomb of Esquilino, c. 300-280 B.C. As with the other arts, the art of painting in Ancient Rome was indebted to its Greek antecedents. In archaic times, when Rome was still under Etruscan influence, they shared a linear style learned from the Ionian Greeks of the Archaic period, showing scenes from Greek mythology, daily life, funeral games, banquet scenes with musicians ...
Pliny, Ancient Rome's most important historian concerning the arts, recorded that nearly all the forms of art – sculpture, landscape, portrait painting, even genre painting – were advanced in Greek times, and in some cases, more advanced than in Rome. Though very little remains of Greek wall art and portraiture, certainly Greek sculpture ...
Rome's Piazza Navona.. Rome has for over two thousand years been one of the most important artistic centres in the world. Early Ancient Roman art initially developed from the Etruscan art slightly to its north, but from about 2000 BC, as the Roman republic became involved with the Greek world, Ancient Greek art and architecture became the dominant influence, until the two effectively merged ...
Between 1753 and 1757, Count Étienne François de Choiseul, Louis XV's ambassador to Rome in the 1740s, commissioned four paintings from Pannini: the Galleries of Views of Ancient Rome [7] and Modern Rome, [8] a view of the Place Saint-Peter and an Interior of St. Peter's Basilica. [9] These paintings were made between 1754 and 1757.
Rome, Sant'Agostino: 260 × 150 cm Oil on canvas: 1604: John the Baptist: Kansas City, Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art: 172.5 × 104.5 cm Oil on canvas: c. 1604: John the Baptist: Rome, Galleria Nazionale d'Arte Antica, Palazzo Corsini: 94 × 131 cm Oil on canvas: c. 1604: The Calling of Saints Peter and Andrew: London, Hampton Court Palace ...
The final painting in the sequence, The Donation of Constantine, records an event that supposedly took place shortly after Constantine's baptism, and was inspired by the famous forged documents, incorporated into Gratian's Decretum, granting the Papacy sovereignty over Rome's territorial dominions.
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The paintings in the Contarelli Chapel form a group of three large-format canvases painted by Caravaggio between 1599 and 1602, initially commissioned by Cardinal Matteo Contarelli for the Church of St. Louis of the French (San Luigi dei Francesi) in Rome, and eventually honored after his death by his executors.