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Greek Art Research Paper

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- Sculptures are by far the most important form of ancient Greek art, but only a small amount of sculptures have actually survived the years
- The first statue/ sculpture was from c. 630BC.
- Greece was the first ever country in Europe to have made sculptures
- Greek art was based off of many different cultures such as Japan and Egypt
- Early greek sculptures were very block shaped during the Archaic period (480-333BC)
- Greek sculptures are mainly divided into 3 different time periods - Mycenaean Art, Archaic, Classical and Hellenistic.
- Mycenaean art (1550 BC-1200 BC) is the first era that we find surviving examples of Greek art.
- During the Hellenistic period (330-300 BC), sculptures were mostly based off of ordinary people and events.
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They had no characteristics that would suggest that the gods/ godesses were greater or more powerful than ordinary humans
- You may think that all these statues would last well, being made mostly out of stone and limestone. But:
- Not many classical statues or sculptures survived until today. (Stone statues can break easily and metal ones were often melted to be re-used for making other things. Limestone can also be melted to make lime. Lime is an ingredient used in cement)

- Greeks were very skilled at working with metal.
- Most statues/ sculptures were made out of marble, bronze, wood, limestone and terracotta because they were abundant in Greece
- Sculptures were
- Bronze sculptures were usually rare because there was a huge risk there would be holes and cracks in the metal as it cools
- Some of the famous Greek sculptors were Praxiteles, Lysippus and Myron.
- Phidias was one of the creators of the sculptures on the Parthenon
- Sculptures were usually based out of humans, gods and goddesses.

- Some of the well known Greek sculptors were Praxiteles, Lysippus and Myron.
- Phidias was one of the many creators of the sculptures on the Parthenon which was built in c.

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