ART
- based on Greek and Etruscan styles, but Rome made everything more extravagent
- created expressive art
- very detailed, captured individual's character and emotion
- art was used to decorate homes
- Romans created sculptures, mosaics, or picture made from chips of colored stone and glass, and frescoes, which are wall murals
- Materials Used for Sculpting- bronze, terra cotta
ARCHITECTURE
- Roman architecture had great grandeur
- came from Greek and Etruscan styles
- palaces, temples, and stadiums are mighty monuments
- improved cloumns and arches
- used concrete as thier main building material
- created the dome
- most famous buildings: Pantheon, Colosseum, Arch of Titus, and Arch of Constantine