When in Rome, do as romans do.
Ares Ludovisi Ares was the Greek, and Roman, God of war. The God of savage and obscure side of war. This sculpture is named “Ares Ludovisi” was a Roman copy of a greek one (made in 320 b.C.). A wonderful copy indedd. The ancient God is here calm and still, pheraphs containing his obscure brutality. His muscles do not hide the force and the ability with the sword. But wait: what kind of sword is this? Not very “greek”. Yes, indeed it is not. The sword, the hand, a foot and the eros was sculptured centuries after by one of the best scuplturists of the world, maybe my favourite: Gianlorenzo Bernini. I definitely love the hilt. Bernini worked in the roman baroque epoch, the same of Caravaggio. In this sculpture he inserted this fantastic, monster-like hilt, a little insert of true baroque in a Roman imperial sculpture. Where else if not in Rome?

Ares Ludovisi

Ares was the Greek, and Roman, God of war. The God of savage and obscure side of war. This sculpture is named “Ares Ludovisi” was a Roman copy of a greek one (made in 320 b.C.). A wonderful copy indedd. The ancient God is here calm and still, pheraphs containing his obscure brutality. His muscles do not hide the force and the ability with the sword. But wait: what kind of sword is this? Not very “greek”. Yes, indeed it is not. The sword, the hand, a foot and the eros was sculptured centuries after by one of the best scuplturists of the world, maybe my favourite: Gianlorenzo Bernini. I definitely love the hilt. Bernini worked in the roman baroque epoch, the same of Caravaggio. In this sculpture he inserted this fantastic, monster-like hilt, a little insert of true baroque in a Roman imperial sculpture. Where else if not in Rome?

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