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  2. Ancient Greek art - Wikipedia

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    The most famous of all ancient Greek painters was Apelles of Kos, whom Pliny the Elder lauded as having "surpassed all the other painters who either preceded or succeeded him." [105] [106] Due to the perishable nature of the materials used and the major upheavals at the end of antiquity, not one of the famous works of Greek panel painting has ...

  3. Herculaneum papyri - Wikipedia

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    A papyrus copy depicting the Epicurean tetrapharmakos in Philodemus' Adversus Sophistas – (P.Herc.1005), col. 5. Until the middle of the 18th century, the only papyri known were a few survivals from medieval times. [50] Most likely, these rolls never would have survived the Mediterranean climate and would have crumbled or been lost. Indeed ...

  4. Petra papyri - Wikipedia

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    Mosaic of woman from the floor of the Petra Church, where the Petra papyri were found. The Petra papyri, also known as the Petra archive, is a corpus of papyrus documents written in Ancient Greek and dating to the 6th century AD that were discovered in the Byzantine Church at Petra in 1993. [1]

  5. List of Greek artists - Wikipedia

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    This is a list of Greek artists from the antiquity to today. Artists have been categorised according to their main artistic profession and according to the major historical period they lived in: the Ancient (until the foundation of the Byzantine Empire), the Byzantine (until the fall of Constantinople in 1453), Cretan Renaissance 1453-1660, Heptanese School 1660-1830 and the Modern period ...

  6. Hellenistic art - Wikipedia

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    Hellenistic art is the art of the Hellenistic period generally taken to begin with the death of Alexander the Great in 323 BC and end with the conquest of the Greek world by the Romans, a process well underway by 146 BC, when the Greek mainland was taken, and essentially ending in 30 BC with the conquest of Ptolemaic Egypt following the Battle of Actium.

  7. After 2,000 years of mystery, secrets of the Herculaneum ...

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    ROME — Buried in ash after Mount Vesuvius’ cataclysmic eruption in A.D. 79, hundreds of papyrus scrolls have kept their secrets hidden for centuries. But archeologists have now been able to ...

  8. Category:Paintings of Greek myths - Wikipedia

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    Persephone (painting) Polyphemus (Sebastiano del Piombo) Prometheus (Orozco) Prometheus Being Chained by Vulcan; Prometheus Bound (Rubens) Prometheus Bound (Thomas Cole) Psamathe (Leighton) The Psyché (My Studio) Psyche Abandoned (painting) Pygmalion and Galatea (Girodet) Pygmalion and Galatea (Gérôme painting) Pygmalion and the Image series

  9. Papyrus - Wikipedia

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    Papyrus (P. BM EA 10591 recto column IX, beginning of lines 13–17) Papyrus (/ p ə ˈ p aɪ r ə s / pə-PY-rəs) is a material similar to thick paper that was used in ancient times as a writing surface. It was made from the pith of the papyrus plant, Cyperus papyrus, a wetland sedge. [1]

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