{"id":6619,"date":"2019-07-23T15:48:53","date_gmt":"2019-07-23T13:48:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.galleriabazzanti.it\/galleria-bazzanti-bronzo-marmo\/"},"modified":"2019-07-24T11:33:41","modified_gmt":"2019-07-24T09:33:41","slug":"galleria-bazzanti-bronzo-marmo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.galleriabazzanti.it\/en\/galleria-bazzanti-bronzo-marmo\/","title":{"rendered":"The Bazzanti Gallery of the ancient Romans"},"content":{"rendered":"
[vc_row full_width=”stretch_row” css=”.vc_custom_1563606950061{padding-top: 300px !important;padding-bottom: 300px !important;background-image: url(https:\/\/www.galleriabazzanti.it\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/blog-galleria-bazzanti-romani-00-sfondo.jpg?id=6510) !important;}”][vc_column][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row full_width=”stretch_row”][vc_column][vc_custom_heading text=”The Bazzanti Gallery of the ancient Romans” font_container=”tag:h1|text_align:left” use_theme_fonts=”yes” el_class=”titolo-articolo”][vc_empty_space][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row full_width=”stretch_row”][vc_column][vc_column_text el_class=”corsivo-blu”]<\/p>\n
The desire to decorate one’s home with replicas<\/strong> of masterpieces<\/strong> from the past is a fashion that has existed since the Roman era. The Romans in fact loved to make copies of Greek sculptures<\/strong>, often “reversing” the materials: often marble statues<\/strong> were reproduced in bronze<\/strong>, and vice versa. A good part of the Greek sculptures are known to us thanks to the replicas of ancient Rome. [\/vc_column_text][vc_images_carousel images=”6520″ img_size=”post-slide” hide_pagination_control=”yes” hide_prev_next_buttons=”yes”][vc_column_text el_class=”corsivo-blu”]<\/p>\n We know that in Rome there were shops and art galleries<\/strong> with such copies for sale; in the second half of the nineteenth century the Dutch painter Alma Tadema imagined just two of these galleries of ancient Rome.<\/p>\n [\/vc_column_text][vc_images_carousel images=”6525,6528″ img_size=”post-slide”][vc_column_text el_class=”corsivo-blu”]<\/p>\n
\nA particular example is the one of the colossal Farnese Hercules<\/strong> sculpted in bronze by the Greek artist Lysippus<\/strong> in the 4th century. A.C., and replicated in marble in the first century B.C. probably from a Roman workshop that signed it with the name of the Greek Glicone falsifying its attribution.<\/p>\n