Reproductie van een schilderij van een race met Romeinse strijdkarren door Ulpiano Checa y Sanz before 1901

This monochromatic image captures a Roman chariot race, full of speed, dust and drama. I can almost feel the artist at work, translating all that noise and chaos. You can see them playing with shades of light and dark to bring the arena to life. Imagine being the artist trying to make sense of such a scene, trying to capture it all with an economy of tone – the horses, the drivers, the crowd, the buildings – you'd need to be brave! It's such a charged moment in history, and you know the artist must have been thinking about that as they painted it. The dark areas really grab your attention, like those horses pounding the ground and those dramatic chariot crashes in the foreground, while the lighter tones evoke the excitement of the crowd, and their spectacle. It reminds me of what other artists have done through time, like Delacroix's wild romantic scenes; all of us in a conversation that never ends. We each take something and add our own voice to it.