Modus Vivendi

A photograph of the past.

With Modus Vivendi, I wanted to depict the roman way of life: bathing on thermae like those ones was certainly one of the most important aspects of the daily life in those days. You can see those fictional thermae (roman baths), but historically quite accurate: they could have done it. I used a lot of references, mainly those done by XIX century architect Viollet le Duc, as he reconstructed in pictures the ancient Baths of Caracalla (early III century). Those thermae are note as impressive as the Caracalla’s ones, but we should think that those characters you see here lived essentially on roman provinces.

In order to achieve this picture, I had to learn many new things for me. I put everything I know and I didn’t know on this image, just to present you (and of course me) of a “photograph” of the past.

This picture took me ages to complete (let’s say a bite more than two weeks, working all day) as you may guess, and I used mostly Corel Painter 8, with some help of Adobe Photoshop CS. Oh, yeah, this could be a wallpaper, if you like!

See the lineart here: [link]

EDIT: you can download a bigger version of it here: [link] it is strongly recommended that you take a look at it