Greek+Sculpture

__Greek Sculpture__ Ancient Greeks both idealized the human form in their sculptures and showed the human body as they felt it should look like. ("Sculpture") The Greek artists must have studied anatomy,physics, and optics as well as techniques of carving, painting, building, gold-working, and ceramics. When they began to make images of their gods, they gave them the most perfect human forms they could imagine and create.The Greeks admired humanity and its works and they tried to make the human form as perfect as possible. ("Sculpture") In ancient Greece, the prosperous city of Athens served as the sculptural hub of the small nation state. There, the art form was nurtured by the wealthy city as it progressed through its different stylistic periods.("Think Quest") Greek sculptures are mainly divided in 7 time periods- Mycenaean Art, Sub-Mycenaean or Dark Age, Protogeometric,Geometric Art, Archaic, Classical, and Hellenistic. The Roman Empire was one of the few respectful nations that did not smash the sculptural works, as many nations did to the art of a nation they have defeated in war, and instead preserved and copied the sculpture of the Greeks, incorporating it into their own culture. ("Think Quest") The Classical Era (480-323 B.C) was created during a "golden age", from the time Athens rose to prominence Greek expansion, right up until the death of Alexander the Great. The Hellenistic Era (323-31 B.c) began around the death of Alexander the Great and ended with the battle of Actium in 31 B.C. The Hellenistic period saw dramatic changes compared the previous logic. ("Ancient Greece")

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Greek art and sculpture has had a profound effect throughout the ages.Many of the styles had been reproducedand copied by some of what the modern modern day audiences would class as some of the finest artists to have ever lived. ("Ancient Greece")

Never in any other era has the art form evolved and developed as rapidly and as beautifully as was seen in ancient Greece. Centuries of war and the various rulers of the land have resulted in the neglect and destruction of many of the Greeks culture's greatest works. ("Think Quest")

 All in all,Ancient Greeks idealized the human form in their sculptures and showed the human body as they felt it should look like.Greek sculptures are mainly divided in 7 time periods- Mycenaean Art, Sub-Mycenaean or Dark Age, Protogeometric, Geometric Art, Archaic, Classical, and Hellenistic. Greek art and sculpture has had a profound effect throughout the ages.In ancient Greece, the prosperous city of Athens served as the sculptural hub of the small nation state.

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__“Art.” //Ancient Greece.// University Press Inc, @008. Web. 16 Mar 2012__

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__Munro, Eleanor. //The Encyclopedia of Art//. New York: Golden Press, 37. Print.__

__ Munro, Eleanor. //The Encyclopedia of Art//. New York: Golden Press, 37. Print. __

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__//**"The Methods of Greek Sculpture." Think Quest. N.p., n.d. Web. 23 Mar 2012. .