Indian art – Ancient and medieval
Indian art: Clay figurines from Mehrgahr, from the Stone Age The earliest art Major themes of Indian art seem to begin emerging as early as the Stone Age. The earliest [...]
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Stone age Greek sculpture
Stone Age Greek sculpture: Clay female figure from Franchthi cave When was the earliest Greek sculpture? As in other parts of Europe, the earliest sculptures from Greece are small figurines [...]
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Women in Severe style Greek sculpture
Severe style: Athena But just as in the Archaic period, all Greek Severe Style sculptors carved women with their clothes on. Women also did much less moving around, and had [...]
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Severe style sculpture in ancient Greece
Kritias Boy (ca. 480 BC) - in the Severe style What is the Severe style? About the time of the Battle of Marathon, in 490 BC, Greek sculptors started to [...]
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Hellenistic Greek sculpture
Hellenistic sculpture by Praxiteles: Hermes and the infant Dionysos A new Hellenistic style At the end of the 400s BC, Greece, and especially Athens, was devastated by a terrible war [...]
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Greek sculpture – ancient Greece
Greek sculpture: Winged Victory (Nike of Samothrace) - Now in the Louvre, Paris What happened to all the Greek statues? Not very much Greek sculpture has survived for us to [...]
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Dark Age Greek sculpture
Clay figurine of a centaur (half-man, half-horse). From Lefkandi, Greece If the Greeks did not produce big statues in the Bronze Age, they certainly could not afford to in the [...]
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Classical Greek sculpture – ancient Greece
Classical Greek sculpture: Discobolos (the Discus Thrower) (This is a Roman copy; the Greek one didn't last) After the Severe style The Severe style didn't last very long, and by [...]
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Minoan and Mycenaean Sculpture
Bull dancing sculpture from Minoan Crete, now in the British Museum Bronze Age sculpture on Crete In the Bronze Age there was not a lot of sculpture in Greece. In [...]
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Archaic sculpture in ancient Greece
Archaic sculpture: Stone statues of Kleobis and Biton Life-size stone sculptures As the Greeks came out of the Dark Ages, about 1000 BC, they began to produce life-size stone sculpture [...]
