The Romans created murals using small pieces of colored glass, stone, and other materials in mosaics. Unlike other times, Roman murals were primarily created inside buildings rather than on external walls. To make a mural, artists would design a piece of art, enlarge the outline by drawing it on square tiles, and use mortar to piece the tiles together, which was a long and laborious process without modern resources. Roman murals differed from other murals of the time in that they typically depicted everyday Roman life rather than focusing on religion and historical events.

1. Ancient Roman Murals
• What materials did they use to create their
murals and why? Where they were normally
created?
The Romans used Mosaics in their murals and
the materials they used were small pieces of
colou
red glass, square tiles, stone, and many other
materials that they found useful to us in their
mosaics
Unlike during other times murals were created
inside buildings rather then on external walls
• What was the process of creating a mural and
who did it?
the process of creating a mural was to design a
piece of art and enlarged the art by drawing the
outline onto a square tile that was hand made then
they used a specific glue called morta to finalize
the artwork. This took a very long time because in
those days they didn’t have the resources like we
do now. Unfortunately we do not know the name of
the artiest who created this fine looking piece of art
• How were Ancient Roman Murals different to
other murals?

2. The Roman ancient murals where different to other
murals, the Romans created murals that were based
on the how they lived their life and what sort of
things they did. However other murals are based on
religion and history that have happened in the past.