Category:Roman art on stamps

The art of the antique Rome encompasses for the most part artworks from the time 400 B.C. - 400 A.D., although the legendary foundation of Rome took place already in 754 B.C. (according to antique authors at the 21 April 753 BC). The chronology of the Roman art includes the following times:

a) Roman Kingdom (754 B.C. - 509 B.C.)

b) Roman Republic (509 B.C. - 27 B.C.)

c) Roman Principate + Roman Empire + "Time of the Soldiers Emperors" (27 B.C. - 284 A.D.)

d) Roman Dominate, with

- Barbarian invasions during the Migration Period (375 A.D. - 568 A.D.)

- Division of the Empire (395 A.D.)

- Downfall of the Roman Empire (395 A.D. - 476/480 A.D.) (Western part)

- Byzantine Empire (7th Century - 1453) (conquer of Byzantium by the Ottomans, 1453 A.D.)

Predecessor art styles:
a) Etruscan art (native Italians)
b) Italic art (Indoeuropean Immigrants)
c) Egypt art
d) Phoenician art (Mediterranean regions)
Parallel and/or successor art styles: art of the Migration period, Merovingian art, Carolingian art, Romanesque art, Viking art, Slavic art (and others)

All areas of the Roman art had paragons in the Greek antique (philosophy, architecture, painting, sculpture, applied arts). The Roman art is characterzed by an high degree of proportions, plasticity, perspective and spatial depth, all with light and shadows as intensifying elements in the transition zones between living and non-living matter (sun light = living, stone = non-living). Mosaics, wall paintings, and sculptures were widespread. In the early time is has given chronological and also spatial overlappings with the arts of the Greek antique (what is not surprising in view of the founding legend of Rome by refugies from the Trojan War, however what is not the truth, because between the Trojan War (in the case that this took place really) and the founding of Rome were at least 350 years).