the final roman thing

the last thing ive got to say bout rome is their sweet mosaics. this is yet another area where the romans were very skilled. each little piece was 1 to 2 centimeters. some of the mosaics had 150 tiles per square centimeter. this villa in sicily had 7,000 sq ft of mosaic.

probly the last of the stuff on Rome

The Romans did this thing called Equestrian Statues and one of em was this statue called Marcus Aurelius which was the only equestrian bronze to survive in such a good condition, Michaelangelo even did a copy of it.


another cool thing thing that the romans did was the column of Trajan, which actually had trajan's ashes inside. it was covered with Bas relief, which is like flat statues ona wall, kinda like a coin. the whole column was covered with this bas relief and it was wrapped arounf it like a comic strip that recorded all of his conquests and victories.
 

the romans used paintings as well as awesome architecture. they put paintings in their homes as decoration, family portraits or fake landscapes. they used fresco painting to decorate rooms too,  a fresco is a painting in wet plaster.

yet some more stuff about rome

the romans were the best at tricking out all their cities because of how advanced they were for their time, for example....
the romans had this thing called the forum romanum which they used for political and religious center, like a town square or an ancient mall. their city planning skills also include paved roads, sewers, running water, and city squares.


the way that they got their running water was a marvel of engineering, the used AQUADUCTS- giant concrete structure that brought water from the mountains to the towns at an incline of a half inch per mile. aquaducts used the power of gravity to function. aquaducts are composed of archs and vaults. the romans were so smart that they knew that concrete contracted and expanded with the temp so they only worked on or made aquaducts between april 1st and november 1st. Rome had 77 aquaducts, thats like 350 million gallons.


This is a small little head with glass paste eyes, i dont have much info on him but i know that his name was agustas and i believe he was an emperor.


There is this statue in rome that used to be a guy sitting and it was 30 ft tall, but some thing happened to the body so now all weve got is his head and its called "constantine the great". Constantine was a roman emperor who made being a christian legal. the eyes of that statue are huge in proportion to the rest of the face because if you were looking up at it it would appear to be regular proportion, also the early christians believed that the eyes were a window into the soul. Constantines mom is responsibke for early catholic holy spots.

more roman stuff

the romans were pretty sophisticated in the art of taking baths, in fact they had giant swimming pool sized public baths in a place called a bath house where everyone got naked and bathed together. there were 3 different kinds of baths, the frigidarium- which was really cold, the tepidarium- room temp, and the caldarium- really hot. they would bath in all three of these in one trip to the bath house because they believed the shock that was administered to their bodies after the drastic temp change was really healthy. usually they seperated thye guys from the chics on the baths.
 

The arch of Constantine is another pretty awesome piece of roman architecture. it commemorates the victories and assumption of power of Constantine.

The Pantheon

The pantheon is atemple built by the romans to worship all the gods, because they picked up all the gods of those they conquered. Pan means all and theos is gods so you put the pieces together and you get the pantheon. the walls of the pantheon were 20 feet thick to support the gint dome on the top of the bulding. the floors are 144 feet in diameter and the dome ia also 144 feet from the floor and is thicker at the base. the ciecing is coffered, which means is got lost of boxes alll over it, and at the center of the dome ther is a 30 ft wide hole called the oculus, or eye. the pantheon has a gian front porch called the portico, the portico is corinthian. because of the oculus they had a drainage system in the floor incase it rained. the doors and dome were originally covered in gold, but the pantheon got pilfered.

The Colosseum

The Roman colosseum is a marvel of architecture and technology, this amazing piece of history is still standing today. The colosseum was a huge circular building used for mock naval battles (so it was water tight), killing christians, gladiator fights, that sort of thing. This beast of a building was 16 stories high, thats about 144ft tall. the walls were made of concrete, while the outside was covered with decrative plaster and marble. the colosseum had a capacity of 50,000 people. even though it didnt have a roof there was a giant canvas that could be pulled over the top called the velarium. it took about 1,000 men to hoist this thing into position over the colosseum. the colosseum is also filled with statues inside, they stood on niches and were very ornate, painted with glass eyes on some of them. it was built in standard roman sequence, which is the way all buldings were built back then. standard roman sequence is an order in which doric is on the bottom layer, then ionic, and the top would be corinthian. you needed a ticket to enter the colosseum, just like modern time football games or something. it was built over the rule of 3 different emperors, Vespasian, Titus, and Domitian.

ancient roman stuff

The roman people excelled in art and architecture, partially because they assimilated all the good stuff from all the people that they conquered; and they conquered a whole lot of people. They used archs, vaults, and concrete better than  ayone else.

here we see an image of a roman arch, an arch is a curved architectural element used to span an opening. The romans would have made this out of concrete.

this is an example of a roman vault, a vault is an arched roof or covering made of brick, stone, or concrete.