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 Greek Art
Late Hellenistic

350 BC to 100 AD

 

Egypt and Alexandria

 

The Hellenistic period in Egypt is covered in the Egyptian section of the Museum. Of significant note is the Coptic Christians who often buried their dead with portraits clearly done by Greek artists, this 'Greek' art became part of the Coptic tradition and thus entered early Christian art.

 

Pergamum

 

 

Pergamum: Great Altar of Zeus

Great Temple of Zeus
Pergamum Acropolis
about 165 BC
Pergamum Museum
Berlin, Germany

Greek Hellenistic: [architecture] Pergamum West End Great Altar of Zeus

Great Altar
of Zeus
West End

Greek Hellenistic: [sculpture] Detail of East Frieze

Detail from
East Frieze

 

Greek Hellenistic: [photo] Model of Pergamum Acropolis

Pergamum Model
from
Pergamum Museum
Berlin, Germany

Greek Hellenistic: [sculpture] Head of Attalos I of Permamum

Attalos I of Pergamum
about 220 BC
Staatliche Museen
Berlin, Germany

 

Late Hellenistic

alt spelling: pugilist pugalist

Greek Hellenistic: [sculpture] [bronze] Seated Boxer

Seated Boxer
about 225 BC
Terme Museum
Rome, Italy

Greek Hellenistic: [sculpture] The Gaul Killing his Wife and Himself

The Gaul Killing
His Wife and Himself
about 220 BC
Museo Nazionale Romano
Rome, Italy

Greek Hellenistic: [sculpture] The Dying Gaul

The Dying Gaul
[Roman copy]
about 220 BC
Terme Museum
Rome, Italy

Hellenistic: [sculpture] Young Jocky from Dodone

Young Jockey
from Dodone
 about 220 BC
Archeological Museum
Athens, Greece

 

 

 

Hellenistic: [artifacts] Reconstructed Theater Masks

Reconstructed Theater Masks
about 150 BC

 

Greek Hellenistic: [sculpture] Bronze Stattuete of a Dancer

Bronze Statuette
of a Dancer
about 200 BC
Walter Baker Collection
New York, NY, US

 

Greek Hellenistic: [sculpture] Stattuete of an Emaciated Boy

Statuette of An Emaciated Boy
[Roman copy]
about 150 BC
Dumbarton Oaks
Washington DC, US

Greek Hellenistic: [sculpture] Bronze Satyr with a Wine Skin

Bronze Satyr with
Wine Skin
about 150 BC
Museo Nazionale
Naples, Italy

Greek Hellenistic: [sculpture] Plato

Plato
[Roman copy]
about 200 BC
Fitzwilliam Museum
Cambridge, England

Greek Hellenistic: [sculpture] Homer

Homer
[Roman copy]
about 150 BC

Greek Hellenistic: [sculpture] Poseidon Stattuete

Poseidon? Statuette
about 150 BC
Louvre, Paris, France

 

Greek Hellenistic: [sculpture] Bronze of a Hellenistic Prince

Bronze Statue of a
Hellenistic Prince
about 150 BC
Terme Museum
Rome, Italy

Greek Hellenistic: [sculpture] Head of Hellenistic Prince from Delos

Head of a Hellenistic Prince from Delos
about 100 BC
National Archeological Museum
Athens, Greece

Greek Helenistic: [sculpture] Aphrodite, Pan, and Eros from Delos

Aphrodite, Pan and Eros
from Delos
about 50 BC
National Archaeological Museum
Athens, Greece

 

 

Greek Hellenistic: [sculpture] Laocoön and his Sons with the Sea Dracon

Hagesandros, Polydoros, and Athandoros:
Laocoön and his Sons
with the Sea Dragon
about 150 BC
Vatican Museum, Rome, Italy

Greek Hellenistic: [sculpture] Aphrodite from Melos

Aphrodite from Melos
"Venus de Milo"
about 150 BC
Louvre, Paris, France

Greek Hellenistic: [sculpture] Nike of Samothrace -- "Winged Victory"

Nike of Samothrace
"Winged Victory"
about 200 BC
Louvre, Paris, France

 

 

Roman Rule (146 BC to ...)

Greek art and culture merges with Roman works. After being conquered by the Romans in 146 BC the Greeks became Roman subjects. The Romans held Greek workmanship in high regard, and for the artisans not much had changed. The style of art in favor in Rome was Greek. By 100 BC Greek and Roman artisans had developed methods of copying sculpture that gave fairly precise results. However a copy of a bronze sculpture into cheaper marble required adding struts to support stone that the metal would have supported on its own.

Even the appreciation of male nudity continued with the Romans. If anything, the Romans, like the Egyptians, were more fascinated with an engorged phallus than the Greeks. God's which were commonly represented with them, like Priapus and Hermes (Mercury to the Romans), were commonly displayed as statues in homes and gardens. It was a Roman tradition to hang joke placards from the upright member of a garden Priapus.

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