Extra-credit

I had to write a short paragraph (which turned into three short paragraphs) about my trip to the Indianapolis Art Museum. Extra-credit was offered to those who saw the Roman art exhibit. You might think that an extra-credit paragraph should be boring. I think my prof will like mine (this was for History of England):

My trip to the Indianapolis Art Museum was quite interesting and enlightening. What struck me was the proximity of the art without those velvet ropes that so commonly separate me from history. I’m not going to confess to touching some of the pieces, but I’m sure that some people gave in to temptation. I saw one girl actually touch a map while showing her journeys through Greece and Italy. I was about to call security but didn’t, because I soon realized that it was a modern map, not one from the Roman times. It also helped that she was my friend, and I didn’t want her to get into trouble.

Most of the art pieces were of either famous men or women, and sometimes of commoners. They were constructed out of marble, which is why they stayed so well intact through the years. I thought it was intersecting how some people found different pieces of statues and connected them together. One of the first statues that I saw had a head that was not made at the same time as the body but was still connected as one. I also enjoyed the mosaics and marveled at the amount of time that it took to put them together. Even the number of different colors used is quite impressive.

I’m glad I made the long trek to the art museum. The time that I spent there helped me understand the amount of power and influence that the Romans had over the British Isles. Many of the statues were actually found in current day Britain in large Roman villas.