Culture is a concept without which it is impossible to imagine not only Rome, but all of Italy . Multifaceted, fascinating and insanely beautiful, the culture of Rome will wait for you at every step along the pavement of the Eternal City, incarnating in ideal statues of ancient heroes, then in greatness luxurious fountains, then in the amazing liveliness of medieval frescoes, or even simply in the operatic melody that comes from somewhere. . Perhaps it would not be wrong to say that the whole of Rome is an animated abstract concept of culture, by the way, originating its own and again Roman to Cato . In general, Rome was extremely lucky with geniuses who did not create on his fertile soil: from Michelangelo and Raphael to Vasari and Titian, thanks to which the city is abundantly provided with masterpieces of painting, sculpture and architecture for every taste .

Architecture

Speaking about Roman architecture, we should start by mentioning that the historical buildings of Rome are divided into several large groups, depending on the era (and, accordingly, the style) in which they were erected: antiquity, the Middle Ages, Renaissance and modern times . By the way, according to this principle, the attractions are grouped into single tickets: for example, there is one entrance ticket to three places: the Colosseum, the Roman Forum and the Palatine Hill . Fans of ancient imperial architecture will be impressed by the scale of the structures and the harmony of the lines of the Colosseum and Terme Caracallas, altars of Saturn and Vulcan, arches of Septimius Severus and Constantine . The antiquity of the Christian will appear before you by the early churches of Santa Constance and San Clemente, the ancient temple of Saint Agnes with a network of catacombs, the first followers of the new religion . The asceticism and some heaviness of medieval buildings, for example, the castle of San Angelo or the church of Santa Maria sopra-Minerva alternates with free, flying buildings of the Renaissance, among which the architectural dominant of Rome - the Cathedral St. Peter . Well, a new time gave the city a lot of wonderful buildings of classic appearance mixed with ultramodern buildings, in which, nevertheless, there is clearly visible a unique "smear" of Italian culture .

Ancient Rome

Pentheon

Column of Trajan

Sculpture

Rome could be praised already for only Michelangelo's "Pietu" - stiffened in the stone of the Virgin Mary's sorrow for the departed son . But besides her, the city has an impressive collection of marble masterpieces . The weighty part of it is in the National Roman Museum: these are wonderful examples of antique sculpture . By the way, learn a lot of interesting facts: for example, that when you enter the throne the emperor in the economy of an expensive stone on sculptures, only the heads changed, and the torsos remained the same . It should be noted that not all royal people possessed a heroic physique, and very modest cranial boxes were often placed on their disproportionate trunks . Well and numerous statues with repulsed noses are nothing more than the work of the vandals: everyone knows the pride of the Romans with their perfect nose, and its loss (even if only on sculptures) painfully wounded national vanity . Beautiful The first examples of Roman sculpture can be seen in the Vatican Museums and the Borghese Gallery; among other things, marble statues are generously distributed among churches and temples of Rome - as tombstones on tombs of famous figures or as decoration of the facade on evangelical themes .

Painting

Picturesque canvasses, concentrated in the walls Eternal City, easily zapakayut for the belt other creations of human hands - and the number and uniqueness, and the value of spiritual and material . Here is the greatest collection of medieval frescoes - Sistine Chapel, the world's largest collection of paintings R apael and a lot of wonderful paintings by foreign artists .Of course, it should be noted that a significant part of the picturesque glory is appropriated by the rival of Rome in the cultural field - Florence, but taking into account this worthy struggle in the Italian capital, you can spend a week on walking around the art galleries and still not see all the known canvases . By the way, all the above-mentioned interestingness of Rome ideally coexist with each other, forming a different, "cultural" reality, just as scattered and dissimilar notes suddenly merge into a wonderful melody . And it remains hot wish only one thing: to stock up the forces for walking through the numerous sights and still feel what the culture of Rome is!