Indians and Greeks project
Greek style Buddha from about 100 AD When Alexander the Great brought his army to India, Greek people learned a lot of new things from the people they met in India. We don't know [...]
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Indian art in the Stone Age
Stone Age Indian art: Clay figurines from Mehrgahr The earliest Indian art comes from the Stone Age, starting about 4500 BC. People arriving from West Asia about this time brought their [...]
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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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Harappan period Indian art
Harappan art: Dancing woman from Mohenjo Daro, in what is now Pakistan Harappan art - the Bronze Age By the Bronze Age, around 2000 BC, people in northern India were [...]
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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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07, 2017
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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07, 2017
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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07, 2017
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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07, 2017
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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07, 2017
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 [...]
