This sketch is the ninety-second in a 365-day challenge to draw a picture a day, every day, for a year…
Day ninety-two: Today’s rapid sketch continues the ancient Roman sculptural theme, but this time looks at Roman fresco painting. This slightly pudgy figure with stubby feet is based on a fragment from Ercolano, now in Naples. It struck me during the lecture on sculpture in Renaissance painting the other evening that the Romans painted sculptural figures into their decorative wall motifs. What is curious is that these figures posing on pedestals and built into fanciful architecture are painted to appear living and flesh-like, not like bronze or stone. I can think of a variety of possible reasons for this, none of which I’m going to research now. I’m going to call this the sketch of the day, and go watch an episode of “Rome.” 😉
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