Ancient culture - commonly used term for a prolonged period in the history of culture, centered in the Mediterranean Sea, primarily including the related civilization of ancient Greece and Rome.There it is, beginning with the poetry of Homer (8-7 century BC) until the fall of the Roman Empire in the fifth century AD.
reviewing chronologically ancient Greek monuments of culture and art can ascertain the development of the oldest ways to express thoughts through images, but at the same time continuously improving them to the level of the highest artistic ideals.
Ancient Greek and Roman culture, experiencing some effect of the Ancient East, prevailed throughout the ancient world as the basis of art, philosophy, social and educational institutions.Ideals are maintained, they imitated.This Greco-Roman cultural foundation is very strong influence on the language, politics, educational systems, philosophy, science, art and architecture of the modern world.
Classic heritage flourished in the Middle Ages in the Byzantine-Greek East and the Latin West.The Byzantines called themselves Romans, have kept many of the attributes of economic, legal, administrative organizations, typical of ancient Rome.In Northern Europe, the Frankish king Charlemagne and the Saxon ruler Otto I, sought to restore the Western Roman Empire, crowned by the Pope in Rome as "the emperor and August."Ancient culture was revived during the emergence of various movements neoclassical ages 18-19.Relics of Greco-Roman antiquity - coins, jewelry, vase painting, sculpture, architecture, literature - fascinated minded people in all ages.
poems in Latin and continued to write in the 19th century.Among the famous poet - John Milton and Arthur Rimbaud got his first poetic instruction in this language.The music can recall Igor Stravinsky and "Greek Trilogy" for the ballet "Apollo," "Orpheus", "Agony".
Ancient culture, with its mythological subjects and symbols left a deep mark in the Western literature and painting.
The operating philosophy of St. Thomas Aquinas is mainly based on the ideas of Plato, but reinterpreted in the light of the Christian religion.
Architecture awarded several "Renaissance", especially Roman architecture, is sufficient to cite the example of Washington in America.The city is filled with large marble buildings, which are very reminiscent of Roman temples with columns.
Antiquity has become a particularly popular subject of interest in the sixteenth-seventeenth centuries, when classical sculptures and architectural works is the motive for the prints.Printed images have served as a very important matter.They provided an opportunity for people interested in art and culture, to study them.One example - "Bacchanalia" Andrea Mantegna.It was created by a great artist after his visit to Rome (in years 1488-1490).Special features engravings - frizopodobnaya composition figures copied from ancient sarcophagi that Mantegna seen in private collections and Roman churches.The work strongly influenced the outstanding masters of the Northern Renaissance Albrecht Durer, whose ancient culture has also become a source of inspiration and research.The fruit of this influence is clearly visible in the engraving by Durer "Adam and Eve".Adam posture Apollo Belvedere, a sculpture which was found near Rome in the late fifteenth century.
Imitating the magnificent works of the ancients, however, trying to surpass them, painters, sculptors, writers in subsequent historical periods actually revived the former grandeur of the classical era.
