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  2. Ancient Greek sculpture - Wikipedia

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    Natural marble. By the classical period, roughly the 5th and 4th centuries BC, monumental sculpture was composed almost entirely of marble or bronze; with cast bronze becoming the favoured medium for major works by the early 5th century BC; many pieces of sculpture known only in marble copies made for the Roman market were originally made in bronze.

  3. Polykleitos - Wikipedia

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    It is a typical Greek sculpture depicting the beauty of the male body. "Polykleitos sought to capture the ideal proportions of the human figure in his statues and developed a set of aesthetic principles governing these proportions that was known as the Canon or 'Rule'. [7] He created the system based on mathematical ratios.

  4. Kouros - Wikipedia

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    Kouros (Ancient Greek: κοῦρος, pronounced, plural kouroi) is the modern term [a] given to free-standing Ancient Greek sculptures that depict nude male youths. They first appear in the Archaic period in Greece and are prominent in Attica and Boeotia , with a less frequent presence in many other Ancient Greek territories such as Sicily.

  5. Temple ruins on uninhabited Greek island reveal 2,400-year ...

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    Kouros statues were “popular” in ancient Greek culture from the sixth century B.C. to the fourth century B.C., according to Britannica. The young male figures were used as tombstones ...

  6. Herm (sculpture) - Wikipedia

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    Herma of Demosthenes from the Athenian Agora, work by Polyeuktos, c. 280 BC, Glyptothek. A herma (Ancient Greek: ἑρμῆς, plural ἑρμαῖ hermai), [1] commonly herm in English, is a sculpture with a head and perhaps a torso above a plain, usually squared lower section, on which male genitals may also be carved at the appropriate height.

  7. Laocoön and His Sons - Wikipedia

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    The statue is very likely the same one that was praised in the highest terms by Pliny the Elder, the main Roman writer on art, who attributed it to Greek sculptors but did not say when it was created. [3] The figures in the statue are nearly life-sized, with the entire group measuring just over 2 m (6 ft 7 in) in height.

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