I’m embarrassed to say that despite spending two days at the MFA and several evenings at the RISD art museum I really didn’t do quite as many sketches done as I hoped. And once I got back into my groove[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Today’s Sketch are a couple of different angles of a fragment of a Roman architectural relief from the first quarter of the 2nd century AD representing the preparation of an animal sacrifice, from the Louvre’s Roman sculpture collection. I can’t[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Today’s Sketch is another one from the Seattle Art Museum’s Roman Sculpture exhibit from the Louvre. This one is from a sarcophagus of a poet surrounded by his muses. (regrettably I’m having no luck finding a photo of the original)[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Today’s sketch is another one from the Louvre’s Roman Sculpture collection that was on tour four years ago at the Seattle Art Museum. This piece is from a marble alter consecrated to the Goddess Seline in the second century AD[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Today’s sketch is another from the Louvre’s Roman sculpture collection this one is part of a relief of “Showing the Reading of Auguries and Declaration of Sacred Vows” from the 1st quarter of the first century. It shows the emperor,[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Today is just a small collection from one of the Boston Museum of Fine Arts Roman art rooms. Mostly a bunch of generic portraits. I’ve always liked this facet of roman art that takes a mostly realistic approach to portraiture[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Today’s sketch is more Roman sculpture from the Louvre. This one is a portrait of the Empress Livia, wife of Augustus, as the goddess Ceres.
