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Landscape painting roman ruins in Ostia Antica cont’d

Feb 25, 2021

Landscape painting Roman ruins of Ostia Antica is the recent painting series of mine. I’ve worked on it since the Covid- 19 pandemics has started and subsequently we got stuck in quarantine. What has started as reveries and remembering some travels at first, has become a much loved painting subject of me. I’ve loved history since I can remember, Roman history is a subject I could read about hours and hours. No doubt this has been part of the reason of my artistic diving in the scenography of ruins, silent witnesses of forgotten times. But then so many connotations have emerged while I’ve been studying the subject to work further on. One of those is certainly the fact that inhabitants of Ostia, like Romans, experienced many waves of malaria outbreaks. The 9th century A.D. outbreak of malaria in Ostia even left the city abandoned. Absolutely grateful for the vaccine and the fact we won’t need to leave our homes I still do think about the cyclical nature of the history, the fact that as humans we remain vulnerable even today. Which makes me wonder: What is going to stay…

Some Latin phrases:

Espice, adspice, prospice. / Look behind, look here, look ahead.

Vide et credere. / See and believe.

Verba volant, scripta manent. / Spoken words fly away, written words remain.

Quindquid latine dictum est, altum videtur. / Anything said in Latin sounds profound.

Aude sapere. / Dare to know.

Natura, artis magistra. / Nature, the mistress of art.

Qui scribit, bis legit. / Who writes, reads twice.

Tamara Jare Slovenian painter landscape painting of Ostia Antica ruins in Rome Italy colorful figurative artwork shows white marble statue in brick wall nook and remnants of antique Roman walls painted in vivid bold colors pink, red, yellow. Seen are some pine trees and part of the garden in parco archeologico Ostia Antica Roma Italia tourist attraction. Wall art in vertical portrait format painted with strong brush strokes and with palette knife. — Landscape painting Roman ruins of Ostia Antica

ostia antica landscape

Oct 25, 2020

Ostia Antica Landscape is new oil painting from my Roman Ruins paintings series.

Ostia Antica is well preserved archeological site of the ancient Rome port at the ostium of the river Tiber. I’ve started to paint the series of landscapes depicting archeological site near Rome, Ostia Antica, just in the times of spring outbreak of the Covid – 19 pandemic that has changed our world so immensely.

Time of isolation has been a sort of an artificial bubble, keeping me at home. Which I’ve loved as I basically love being at home. Yet in my subconsciousness, there has been that latent feeling of being trapped in a way. And that strange feeling has led me to the unusual perception that my travel memories have become vivid. It quite possibly has been a sort of escapism. Daydreaming about the places visited at happy summers I’ve remembered the strong colors of a Roman summer. Closing my eyes I’ve been able to smell the flowering trees of the early summer in Rome. I’ve heard the cicadas in the pine trees and the deep shade of old cypresses. Suddenly I could walk down the cobbled streets of the ancient port near the old city. Immersing myself into the scenery of Ostia Antica I’ve imagined the merchants calling the customers, kids playing with a barking dog behind the corner of the bricked house and down there at Via del Sole I could smell the freshly baked bread…..and all that colors have been so vivid I suddenly could not tell the difference between the reality and the happy memories from the far ago……..