• 2012
Treasures of Ancient Rome

Summary Alastair Sooke takes an in-depth look at the art of the Roman Empire in an attempt to refute the claims that Rome didn't produce any art of originality during its View more details

  • 2012

Treasures of Ancient Rome

Directed : Unknown

Written : Unknown

Stars : Alastair Sooke Vito Zagarrio Leo Stevenson Richard Beacham

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Genres : History Documentary

Release date : Sep 2, 2012

Countries of origin : United Kingdom

Language : English

Production companies : British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC)

Summary Alastair Sooke takes an in-depth look at the art of the Roman Empire in an attempt to refute the claims that Rome didn't produce any art of originality during its View more details

Details

Genres : History Documentary

Release date : Sep 2, 2012

Countries of origin : United Kingdom

Language : English

Production companies : British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC)

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Episode 1 • Sep 02, 2012
Warts 'n' All
Art historian Alistair Sooke sets out to redeem Roman art of its undeserved 'secundary' and imitative reputation. The theory they learned most from the Etruscans is compromised, as the Luoa Capitolina, supposed model of the suckled wolf, proves medieval, not Etruscan. The republic expanded by constant and looted Hellenistic art with great taste, then developed its own, less 'effeminate' style to fit a warrior race, 'verisic' realism with warts and all, a boon for historians. Their techniques and materials like Carrara marble were excellent, as modern artist copies confirm, their hunger for art insatiable and range of subjects almost limitless, as demonstrated in Pompeii. Only when Ocatvian Augustus transformed the republic into a de fact monarchy afloat in luxury, new flattering styles took over, portraying an ever-young idealized Augustus who even posed like a god in his private collection for the inner circle's eyes only.
Episode 2 • Sep 09, 2012
Pomp and Perversion
Alistair elaborates how imperial art evolved, away from republican simplicity. Since Augustus, public art served to demonstrate the might of Rome and the emperor. The whole elite preferring private art, more refined and tailoring to their taste for shameless eroticism up to orgiastic debauchery and savage cruelty, both reflecting the excesses of the Julian first dynasty, from Tiberius and Caligula to Nero and Claudius, with stunning cameos and palatial lust villas. Shortly after came the golden age of grand emperors who completed the conquests, posing for the very grandest art as part of a true cults of deified emperors, and indulging in huge private luxury, culminating in Hadrian's Tiburtine complex.
Episode 3 • Sep 16, 2012
The Empire Strikes Back
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