Ludovici Battle Sarcophagus발음듣기
Ludovisi Battle Sarcophagus
Lady: And the Romans perpetrating themselves as the good guys here, and they look more noble, more heroic.발음듣기
The Goths, their enemy, look almost character with puffy noses, and cheeks, and wild expressions on their faces.발음듣기
Man: Well, their the barbarians, and it's interesting because that's something that the Ancient Romans are borrowing directly from the Ancient Greeks.발음듣기
Not only is every area of this sarcophagus covered with figures, and horses, and shields, but there are some places where the carving is so deep that the forms, the limbs, the heads of horses are almost completely off-set from the background.발음듣기
Man: Well, it's such a dense tangle, that it actually takes us a moment to be able to follow each body and understand where each persons body begins and ends.발음듣기
Man: It's almost impossible to remember that this is just static rock, because the surface is so activated.발음듣기
He's holding his chin, he's holding the back of his head, and you have the sense that he's making a decision as whether to be merciful or to slay this prisoner.발음듣기
Lady: And strangely if we look toward the bottom of the sarcophagus the figures get smaller instead of larger.발음듣기
We have a kind of interesting perspective that's constructed in here, certainly not linear perspective, but kind of an organizing perspective that makes sense of this complex surface.발음듣기
One of the issues that I find most interesting is the way in which the shields and other elements create canopies that frame individual figures, and bring our eye deeply into this composition.발음듣기
Lady: That dark shadow behind him, it's really wonderful about this sarcophagus is the alternation of light and dark that animates the surface.발음듣기
Where we see the most shadow and the most deep carving is in the hair of the Goths, in their faces, and the smooth surface of the marble is reserved for the Romans, who are left deeply carved.발음듣기
Lady: We see more and more sarcophagi, or the plural of sarcophagus, beginning in the second century in Rome, and continuing through the third century.발음듣기
Man: Right. Previously the Romans had cremated their death, but we know that by the second century it became fashionable to bury the dead in the sarcophagus.발음듣기
Lady: Artisans have been trying to identify the figure whose sarcophagus this is, and they have one or two ideas, but we're not really sure.발음듣기
It must have been someone wealthy and powerful, because this is an enormous piece of marble.발음듣기
Man: So what we can see here is a choice to move away from the high classical Greek carving that we associate with the great sculptures of the Parthenon that we know the Romans also loved.발음듣기
Lady: It's important to remember than in the second and third centuries the empire was not as stable as it was in 100 or 200 years after Augustus.발음듣기
There's civil war, there's instability in the empire generally, and it's possible to associate this style with these political and historical changes.발음듣기
Man: It might be too much to say in the chaotic qualities of this surfacing to mirror the chaos of the empire.발음듣기
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