Week 6: Lindley Wren

The viewpoints of Nodelman and Welch slightly differ in regards to the development of Roman portaiture. Welch seems to highly attribute the roots of Roman creations to the Greeks.  While Nodelman recognizes the development of portraits and statues to having begun with the Greeks, it is implied in the Nodelman article that Roman portaiture took on a unique and modernized approach to art that was very different from the Greeks. Nodelman notes how Roman portaiture is highly different from Greek creations in that the Roman sculptors took into close account political and social issues of the time and tried to trigger a response and understanding in the viewers of a particular work of art. Such a response was easily generated by paying close attention to the development of the work of art in regards to physical attributes (such as the direction of the subject's eyes and the expression on the subject's face).