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  2. Classical sculpture - Wikipedia

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    The Classical period saw changes in both the style and function of sculpture. Poses became more naturalistic (see the Charioteer of Delphi for an example of the transition to more naturalistic sculpture), and the technical skill of Greek sculptors in depicting the human form in a variety of poses greatly increased.

  3. Classical Greek sculpture - Wikipedia

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    Today the formal patterns of classical Greek sculpture, its humanism and emphasis on the nude have found a new way to impress society, influencing the conception of beauty and practices regarding the body, resurrecting a cultivation of the physical that was born with the Greeks and influences various customs related to sexuality and the concept ...

  4. Archaic Greek sculpture - Wikipedia

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    Classical artists such as Myron could still produce works in an Archaic style around 450 BC, and throughout Classical art one will find such statues, especially in the field of cult statues and herms, where this style was often considered best suited to lending the image a divine aura by its austere and abstract features, distancing it from the ...

  5. Bucranium - Wikipedia

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    Garlanded bucrania on a frieze from the Samothrace temple complex Bucranium on the frieze of the Temple of Vespasian and Titus in Rome.. Bucranium (pl. bucrania; from Latin būcrānium, from Ancient Greek βουκράνιον (boukránion) 'ox's head', referring to the skull of an ox) was a form of carved decoration commonly used in Classical architecture.

  6. Classicism - Wikipedia

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    The art of classicism typically seeks to be formal and restrained: of the Discobolus Sir Kenneth Clark observed, "if we object to his restraint and compression we are simply objecting to the classicism of classic art. A violent emphasis or a sudden acceleration of rhythmic movement would have destroyed those qualities of balance and ...

  7. Periods in Western art history - Wikipedia

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    1 Ancient Classical art. 2 Medieval art. 3 Renaissance. 4 Baroque to Neoclassicism. 5 Romanticism. 6 Romanticism to modern art. 7 Modern art. ... Video art – early ...

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  9. Classics - Wikipedia

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    Some art historians focus their study on the development of art in the classical world. Indeed, the art and architecture of ancient Rome and Greece is very well regarded and remains at the heart of much of our art today. For example, ancient Greek architecture gave us the classical orders: Doric, Ionic, and Corinthian.