#greco roman art

[fallensapphires]

Art: Greco-Roman Statues

Dear God! how beauty varies in nature and art. In a woman the flesh must be like marble; in a statue the marble must be like flesh.

[hecate-valentine]

so I realized something.

one of my favorite hobbies (besides being sephiroths full time simp) is art history and learning about different art styles from many time periods. my favorite is and always has been the Greco Roman period. I was looking at Greco Roman sculptures a couple days ago, and as I was looking at these ones in particular.

I looked at these and i saw someone else in them.

like the side profile of this man screams Greco Roman to me with his sharper nose, strong chin, and full lips. especially head on too.

especially with the definition on the bridge of the nose and on the upper lip.

looking back on it, I think that these similarities between Greco Roman art and this beautiful man that has been a longtime figment of my childhood is what drew me in to playing more ff7 games that had him in it because of the fact he is the embodiment of my favorite art style 😘😘

[blackyeshuadepictions]

[redinthesea]

I HAD PROMISED I'D DRAW FANART OF @rocknpebbles REDESIGNS OF THESE TWO, and I finally found the time to do it!!!

[peglarpapers]

the terror (2018) // the odyssey, trans. emily wilson

[artifacts-and-arthropods]

2,000-Year-Old Fayum Portraits from Roman Egypt: also known as "mummy portraits," these funerary paintings were often fastened to the coffins of the people they depicted

Above: Fayum portrait of a woman from Roman-occupied Egypt, c.100-110 CE

Fayum portraiture was a popular funerary practice among the upper-class families of Roman Egypt from about 50 CE to 250 CE. Given the high mortality rates for children during this period, many of these portraits depict children and youths, but adults were often featured, too.

Above: portrait of a youth wearing a golden wreath, c.130-150 CE; the wreath and the background of the portrait are both gilded

The population of the Faiyum Delta, where most of these portraits were found, largely contained individuals with both native Egyptian/North African and Greek heritage. The Greek lineages can be traced back to the Ptolemaic period, when the Greeks gained control of Egypt and began to establish settlements throughout the region, gradually leading to a cultural diffusion between the Greek and Egyptian populations. The Romans eventually took control of Egypt in 31 CE, absorbing it into the Roman Empire and colonizing much of North Africa, but the demographics of the Faiyum Delta remained largely unchanged.

Above: portrait of a man with a mole on his nose, c.130-150 CE

Many of these Fayum portraits reflect the same blend of ethnic and cultural roots, depicting individuals with both Greek and native Egyptian heritage (a claim that is supported by both archaeological and genetic evidence). Some portraits may also depict native Egyptians who did not have any European ancestry, but had been integrated into Greco-Roman society.

Above: portrait of a bearded man, c.170-180 CE

These representations of native Egyptians provide us with unique insights into the actual demographics of Roman-occupied Egypt (and the ancient world at large). Non-European peoples are rarely included in depictions of the classical world; it's also interesting to see the blend of cultural elements that these portraits represent.

Above: portrait of a priest of Serapis, c.140-160 CE; the man in this portrait is shown wearing a fillet/crown that bears the seven-pointed star of the Greco-Egyptian god, Serapis

As this article explains:

In the 1800s and early 1900s, Western art historians didn’t know what to make of these portraits. Scholars of Roman history labeled them Egyptian. Scholars of Egyptian history labeled them Greco-Roman. These binary academic classifications failed to capture the true complexity of the ancient (or, indeed, modern) Mediterranean. In reality, Fayum portraits are a syncretic form, merging Egyptian and Greco-Roman art and funerary practices. They reflect the cosmopolitanism of both Roman and Egyptian history.

Above: portrait of a man, c.80-100 CE (left); portrait of a bearded officer, sometimes referred to as "Perseus," c.130-175 CE (right)

Above: portrait of a young woman in red, c.90-120 CE

Nearly 1,000 of these portraits are currently known to exist.

Above: portrait of a man wearing a gilded ivy wreath, c.100-150 CE

Above: portrait of a bearded man, c.150-170 CE

Sources & More Info:

Curationist: Fayum Portraits

Harvard Art Museums: Giving the Dead their Due: an Exhibition Re-Examines Funerary Portraits from Roman Egypt

Getty Museum: APPEAR Project

Getty Museum: Faces of Roman Egypt

National Geographic: Ancient Egypt's Stunning, Lifelike Mummy Portraits

The Athens Centre: The Myth of Whiteness in Classical Sculpture

Forbes: Whitewashing Ancient Statues: Whiteness, Racism and Color in the Ancient World

[maddoxfanx]

commission of my oc nia

[illustratus]

Apollo and the Sun Chariot by Pinckney Marcius-Simons

[atomic-chronoscaph]

Fantasia: The Pastoral Symphony - Concept art by James Bodrero, Fred Moore and Sylvia Holland (c.1939)

[spicybardjj]

A poly bathstarion sandwich (thank you to @darlingxdragon for coining bathstarion 😂♨️). I can't seem to help myself from rendering these as more than sketches. We'll see how the Karlach x Shadowheart piece in my WIP folder goes lol

Astarion Pose 1 ~ Astartion Pose 2 & 3

[theartofrabbits]

19th or early 20th c. Greek or Roman mosaic of a rabbit, lizard, and mushroom

Via Wikimedia Commons.

[eirene]

Venus And Cupid Joseph Bernard

[sepulchrypha]

I am COOKING haunted ass bronze men,,,,take this and begone from my chambers....

[theancientwayoflife]

~ Female Head.

Culture: Graeco-Egyptian

Place of origin: Akhmim, Egypt

Date: 1st century B.C.-A.D. 1st century

Period: Ptolemaic Period-Roman Period

Medium: Limestone, stone, pigment

[lionofchaeronea]

Ancient Egyptian mummy portrait (encaustic on wood) of a boy identified by an inscription as Eutyches. Artist unknown; 2nd cent. CE (Roman period). Now in the Metropolitan Museum of Art.