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  2. Ancient Greek art - Wikipedia

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    The writings of Johann Joachim Winckelmann, especially his books Thoughts on the Imitation of Greek Works in Painting and Sculpture (1750) and Geschichte der Kunst des Alterthums ("History of Ancient Art", 1764) were the first to distinguish sharply between ancient Greek, Etruscan, and Roman art, and define periods within Greek art, tracing a ...

  3. Heroic nudity - Wikipedia

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    Heroic nudity or ideal nudity is a concept in classical scholarship to describe the un-realist use of nudity in classical sculpture to show figures who may be heroes, deities, or semi-divine beings. This convention began in Archaic and Classical Greece and continued in Hellenistic and Roman sculpture. The existence or place of the convention is ...

  4. Greek dress - Wikipedia

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    Ancient Greeks depicted in variety of different costumes. Detail of a Kore's dress 14th-century military martyr wears four layers, all patterned and richly trimmed: a tunic and a mantle decorated with a tablion. Greek dress refers to the clothing of the Greek people and citizens of Greece from antiquity to modern times.

  5. 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

  6. 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 ...

  7. Nude (art) - Wikipedia

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    It was a preoccupation of Ancient Greek art, and after a semi-dormant period in the Middle Ages returned to a central position with the Renaissance. Unclothed figures often also play a part in other types of art, such as history painting, including allegorical and religious art, portraiture, or the decorative arts. From prehistory to the ...

  8. Gigantomachy by the Suessula Painter - Wikipedia

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    The gigantomachy by the Suessula Painter is a painting on a red-figure amphora from the Classical period of Greece. It is the work of the Suessula Painter, an Athenian vase-painter whose name is unknown. He worked in both Corinth and Athens and is recognizable by his style, with great freedom of posture and a unique shading of figures.

  9. Greek art - Wikipedia

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    Byzantine art grew from the art of ancient Greece and, at least before 1453, never lost sight of its classical heritage, but was distinguished from it in a number of ways. The most profound of these was that the humanist ethic of ancient Greek art was replaced by the Christian ethic.

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