Roman Sculpture Persuasive Speech

Today we'll continue our examination of ancient Roman sculpture. We've already looked at portrait sculpture which are busts created to commemorate people who had died, and we've looked at relief sculpture, or sculpting on walls. And today we'll look at yet another category of sculpture - copies. Roman sculptors often made copies of famous Greek sculptures.
Why did they do that?
Well see the in the late 4th century BC the Romans began a campaign to expand the Roman Empire, and in 300 years they had conquered most of the Mediterranean area and parts of Europe. You know the saying, To the victor belong the spoils "? Well, the Roman army returned to Rome with many works of Greek art. It's probably fair to say that the Romans were impressed by Greek art and culture and they began making copies of the Greek statues. Now the dominant view in traditional art history is that Roman arts lacked
Essentially, The Traditional View, A View that apos been Prevalent for over 250 years, IS that The the Romans copied appears Greek Sculptures Because They Could Not Create Sculpture of Their own. But the finally some Contemporary Art Historians have have challenged the this View. One IS Elaine Gazda. Gazda said that might have other reasons that Romans made copies. She was not convinced that it was because of a lack of creativity. Can anyone think of another possible reason? Well maybe they just admired these sculptures, you know, they liked the They Looked Way. Yes. that's One of Gazda's Points. Another IS that the while the Easy Nowadays Reproduction IS, SO IT WAS not the Easy in Roman Times. Copying Statues A Lot of skill required, Time and effort. So Gazda hypothesises that copying did not indicate a lack of artistic imagination or skill on the part of