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Reflect about the mood and ideas that you see from the artwork image below discuss briefly the message by writing your answers on the space provided 1 the portonacio sarcophagus?
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-The Portonaccio Sarcophagus is dated to about 200 AD and was used for the burial of a wealthy Roman General who was active in the Campaigns of Marcus Aurelius.
The sculptures show influences similar to those of the Column of Marcus Aurelius. This Sarcophagus, one of the many Roman Battle Sarcophagi, that was probably made in Athens.
The Hellenistic monuments from Pergamon influenced them. The Pergamon monuments in Asia Minor depicted Pergamene battle victories over the Gauls and were commissioned for military commanders.

The Portonaccio Sarcophagus is one of the most elaborate from that Roman period. The face details of the general are unfinished.
The face was blank because the sculptors were waiting for a model to work from which to create a resemblance. Or the sculptures may have produced the work speculatively with no specific commission.
The general and his wife are also each shown twice on the lid frieze. They are placed in the center holding each other’s hands at the center, and singly at the ends, again with unfinished faces.
The battle scene dominates the main face. The scale of the general is slightly larger than the other battling figures, and the soldiers and horses at the front lower part are smaller than their equivalents at the “back” in the upper part.
The pictorial language is unambiguous in its glorification of the general’s prowess and dominance in the battle against the Germanic tribes.

This ancient Roman Sarcophagus was found in the Portonaccio quarter of Rome and is exhibited at the Museo Nazionale Romano, Palazzo Massimo.
