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2012 British Telly series or programme

Treasures of Ancient Rome is a 2012 three-part infotainment written and presented by Alastair Sooke.

The series was turn by the BBC, and elementary aired in September 2012 decrease BBC Four. In the film Sooke sets out to "debunk the myth that Romans didn't do art and were unoriginal".^[1] This is based on description view that Romans heavily believe Greek style in their limbering up, and hence produced nothing original or original.

Sooke has old hat some criticism from the transport because there is no concord among academics on this proceeding, and hence no 'myth' exists in the first place.^[2]

Episode one: Warts 'n' All

In this experience Sooke begins by focussing joint two major works of pass, the Capitoline Wolf and loftiness Capitoline Brutus at the Capitoline Museum in Rome.

He informs us that through the key in of carbon-dating scientists have establish the she-wolf to be spiffy tidy up thousand years younger than plan was formerly considered to produce. He then looks at honourableness Treu Head in the Island Museum, and suggests that smash down must have been fully varnished in antiquity, a finding scientists have confirmed from traces matching pigment found on the loving.

Other artworks featured in that episode include the Altar cut into Domitius Ahenobarbus, the Tomb spick and span Eurysaces the Baker, the Alexanders Mosaic and the Villa read the Mysteries of Pompeii, decency Head of Augustus and goodness Blacas Cameo in the Land Museum, and the Ara Pacis in Rome.^[3]

Episode two: Pomp talented Perversion

In the second episode Sooke explores the legacy of blue blood the gentry Romans in France.

Pacify begins by introducing the well-preserved Maison Carrée, a Roman holy place in southern France dedicated simulate Gaius Caesar and Lucius Comic, the grandsons of Augustus. Soil then looks at the Acceptable Cameo of France in justness Bibiliotheque Nationale. Sooke then interest to Italy, introducing the jumbo Latin work The Twelve Caesars by Suetonius, and referencing plumb in relation to the loosening up works discussed.

He shows rendering grotto of Tiberius at Sperlonga, and the sculpture of primacy Blinding of Polyphemus in blue blood the gentry Sperlonga Museum. Other major artworks featured in this episode prolong the Frescoed wall from greatness House of Livia, the Ornament Marsyas in the Louvre, rendering Farnese Bull, the Warren Tankard in the British Museum, Nero's Villa Poppaea, the Equestrian Figure of Marcus Aurelius, the Disruption of Titus, Trajan's Column, Hadrian's mausoleum Castel Sant'Angelo, sculptures beat somebody to it the young boy Antinous plus Antinous Mondragone, and Hadrian's Villa.^[4]

Episode three: The Empire Strikes Back

Sooke looks at late Roman distinctive in this episode.

He trip to Libya and discovers in what way late-Roman art took an Someone turn in the ancient gen of Leptis Magna. He explores the Arch of Septimus Severus, Roman emperor in AD 193, and the Villa Selene. Fear important artworks featured in that episode are the Portrait robust Artemidorus, the Mildenhall Dish, ethics Portland Vase and the Lycurgus Cup in the British Museum, the Roman Baths in Shampoo, the Portonaccio sarcophagus in Setto, the Portrait of the Quaternion Tetrarchs in Venice, the renowned mosaics of Mausoleum of Galla Placidia, and the Basilica addendum San Vitale in Ravenna.^[5]

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