Mural Paintings Of Ancient Egypt, Ancient Greek And Ancient Roman

Term: 2019 summer
Midterm Exam
Western Art: Ancient to Medieval
Name: ____ ____ Time: _______________ Total: _________
Short essay (800 words, 35 points):
Compare the mural paintings of ancient Egypt, ancient Greek, and ancient Roman. What are the differences and similarities of their art styles and themes? (900 words at least, 55 points)
Egyptians commonly used murals during the construction of their ancient buildings as a common form of decoration. They employed artistic work of arts to paint prominent people in the community whose sizes corresponded to their respective level of prominence (Ruddley, Groenewegen-Frankfort & Ashmole, 1973). Hence, Egyptians appear strange and flat in drawings and paintings since artists paint them in an exceptional way. Egyptians, like Romans and Greek, liked using statues because they helped to communicate specific messages to people who could read. Unlike in Roman and Greek, Egyptians made large and small statues of their queens, pharaohs, goddesses, and gods. Additionally, Egyptians made statues of a whole body of the person or god in question, but Roman statues merely consisted of the persons head and shoulders.
On the other hand, Greeks and the Romans shared a considerable number of aspects in their art and architecture; however, they had many differences in different artistic and architectural elements. Both Greeks and Romans employed bunches of granites when erecting statues, explicitly white sculptures. The Greek figures were typical of divine beings, prominent leaders, and their gods (Ruddley, Groenewegen-Frankfort & Ashmole, 1973). They applied incredible artistic features on their erections, which made them look more appealing than those of the Egyptians and the Romans. Although the Roman murals were made to view more or less than the person in question, they were far away from reality in the real sense. Moreover, Romans also made busts, which only consisted of a person’s head and in rare cases, their shoulders. These were, however, only made in commemoration of prominent political leaders.
Additionally, the Romans used paintings and mosaics and were similar to those the Greeks but different from the Egyptians’ (Ruddley, Groenewegen-Frankfort & Ashmole, 1973). They placed various collections of the divider on the floor, which presented their artwork in a manner that seemed identical to the person in the drawing. Also, the Roman sketches and mosaics were, more often than not, made of the images of notable persons or to mark remarkable occasions (Ruddley, Groenewegen-Frankfort & Ashmole, 1973). On the contrary to the Greeks didn’t venture in making mosaics and paintings but like the Romans, they also created amphora...