Name: Roman Honey Four-Sided Glass Vase
SKU: G.0413
Price: 1600.00 USD
Availability: InStock

Classical antiquity is a broad term for a long period of cultural history centered on the Mediterranean Sea, comprising the interlocking civilizations of ancient Greece and ancient Rome, collectively known as the Greco-Roman world. It is the period in which Greek and Roman society flourished and wielded great influence throughout Europe, North Africa and the Middle East. Conventionally, it is taken to begin with the earliest-recorded Greek poetry of Homer (8th–7th century BC), and continues through the emergence of Christianity and the decline of the Roman Empire (5th century AD). It ends with the dissolution of classical culture at the close of Late Antiquity (AD 300–600). The culture of the ancient Greeks, together with a cross section of influences from the Orient, prevailed throughout classical antiquity as the basis of art, philosophy, society, and educational ideals. These ideals were preserved and imitated by the Romans, and it is this “Greco-Roman” cultural foundation that has been so immensely influential on the language, politics, educational systems, philosophy, science, art, and architecture of the modern world. Out of this sprang the ground-breaking art of the period, with its emphasis on symmetry, proportion, geometry, and a revolutionary blending of naturalism with idealism. “Classical Art,”…

Roman Honey Four-Sided Glass Vase

SKU

G.0413

Circa

200 AD to 400 AD

Dimensions

3.375″ (8.6cm) high x 1.75″ (4.4cm) wide

Medium

Glass

Origin

Bethlehem

Gallery Location

USA

Glass was a rare commodity in antiquity, used to contain only the most costly and precious of substances. What did this vase hold when Rome was the center of the world, and who might have gripped its sinuous handle to pour out its precious contents? Though the vessel appears empty, we can fill it completely with the heady essence of imagination.

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