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Certain statuettes include a small cavity intended to receive smaller figurines, representative of their babies. During early childhood, figurines of squatting children were given —a representation of Eastern origin, arrived in Greece via Rhodes and Cyprus. The so-called "temple boys" were thought to protect children.
Some of this art may have been produced by women and children. [14] Although the art produced (particularly pottery, grave stelai and figurines) was used by a wider range of people than much Athenian literature was—including women and children [14] —it is not known how accurately the iconography of classical art mapped the reality of ...
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 ...
Tanagra figurine representing woman sitting. Tanagra was an unimportant city in antiquity. The city had come to the attention of historians and archeologists during the early 19th century after war broke out between the Turks and their allies, the British and the French, following a warning of a French invasion.
Kore (Greek: κόρη "maiden"; plural korai) is the modern term [1] given to a type of free-standing ancient Greek sculpture of the Archaic period depicting female figures, always of a young age. Kouroi are the youthful male equivalent of kore statues. Korai show the restrained "archaic smile", which did not demonstrate emotion.
The Group of Aphrodite, Pan and Eros (Greek: Αφροδίτη, Παν και Έρως) is an ancient marble Greek sculpture of the first century BC depicting the goat-legged god Pan trying to woo Aphrodite, the goddess of love and desire, unsuccessfully.
Reliefs, figurines, statues and statuettes of women in Greece. Pages in category "Sculptures of women in Greece" The following 55 pages are in this category, out of 55 total.
The sculpture of ancient Greece is the main surviving type of fine ancient Greek art as, with the exception of painted ancient Greek pottery, almost no ancient Greek painting survives. Modern scholarship identifies three major stages in monumental sculpture in bronze and stone: the Archaic (from about 650 to 480 BC), Classical (480–323 BC ...