Romans created more realistic sculptures, and portraits. Greek sculptures idealized the humans form, using athletes as models of preform.
Greek statues were naturalistic, while the Egyptian ones were stylised. Roman sculpture in the Republican period was highly realistic portraiture (busts). In the period of rule by emperors the Romans adopted full bodied statues and they were modelled on the Hellenistic sculpture of the Greeks.
it's style was influenced by ancient Greek and Roman sculptures
The functions of sculpture in ancient Rome were the same as those in the Greek tradition. Statues were the a bit like an equivalent of paintings because both the Greeks and Romans only had fresco paintings. Originally Roman sculpture was portraiture (busts). Then they adopted Greek sculpture. The best sculptors were Greek. Most Roman sculptors made replica of the 'mass' market. Some Roman statues were about Greek myths.
The Greek statues were meant to look perfect. The Roman copied the Greek art and many other stuffs. But some of the things the Roman copied were different. Their statues were not meant to look perfect. They included every single features, unlike the Greeks. These are the reason why the Roman and Greek statues differ
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What are the simularities that both of the cultures have and what are some differences that they both have
Roman sculptures are sculptures which were made by Romans. The Romans were very fond of commissioning marble busts of themselves and their families. Emperors liked to depict themselves as some aspect of a deity.
Greek sculpture influenced the Romans from the 2nd century BC. Prominent 1st century BC and 1st century AD Romans such as Cicero and Pliny the Elder greatly admired the innovative work of classical Greek sculpture artists, such as Polykleitos. However, the Romans did not produce much sculpture based on the classical Greek model. Their sculpture was predominantly portraiture (see below) until , from the 1st century AD, the Romans adopted Hellenistic sculpture, which took sculpture to a different level, as a model for their own sculpture. Prior to the influence of Greek sculpture, Roman sculpture was portraiture sculpture (busts). Their portraiture sculpture is regarded as the best sculpture of this kind ever produced.
Very old statues usually get a lot of rough handling and they break off. The old classic look of statues with broken arms has become a sort of symbol for classic art and so is often recreated in more recent statues. But the originals did have arms! A lot of people like the esthetic look of the broken arms and consider the form of the bust or torso to be the perfect body form, and arms become a distraction to them.