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  2. Death in ancient Greek art - Wikipedia

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    The theme of death within ancient Greek art has continued from the Early Bronze Age all the way through to the Hellenistic period. The Greeks used architecture, pottery, and funerary objects as different mediums through which to portray death. These depictions include mythical deaths, deaths of historical figures, and commemorations of those ...

  3. Ancient Greek funeral and burial practices - Wikipedia

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    After 1100 BC, Greeks began to bury their dead in individual graves rather than group tombs. Athens, however, was a major exception; the Athenians normally cremated their dead and placed their ashes in an urn. [4] During the early Archaic period, Greek cemeteries became larger, but grave goods decreased.

  4. Getty kouros - Wikipedia

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    The Getty kouros is an over-life-sized statue in the form of a late archaic Greek kouros. [1] The dolomitic marble sculpture was bought by the J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles, California, in 1985 for ten million dollars and first exhibited there in October 1986. [2][3][4] Despite initial favourable scientific analysis of the patina and aging ...

  5. Sarcophagus of Junius Bassus - Wikipedia

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    The Sarcophagus of Junius Bassus is a marble Early Christian sarcophagus used for the burial of Junius Bassus, who died in 359. It has been described as "probably the single most famous piece of early Christian relief sculpture." [1] The sarcophagus was originally placed in or under Old St. Peter's Basilica, was rediscovered in 1597, [2] and is ...

  6. Ancient Greek sculpture - Wikipedia

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    Ancient Greek sculpture. Riders from the Parthenon Frieze, around 440 BC. 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 ...

  7. Phrasikleia Kore - Wikipedia

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    The Phrasikleia Kore is an Archaic Greek funerary statue by the artist Aristion of Paros, created between 550 and 540 BCE. It was found carefully buried in the ancient city of Myrrhinous (modern Merenta) in Attica and excavated in 1972. The exceptional preservation of the statue and the intact nature of the polychromy elements makes the ...

  8. Laocoön and His Sons - Wikipedia

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    The statue of Laocoön and His Sons, also called the Laocoön Group (Italian: Gruppo del Laocoonte), has been one of the most famous ancient sculptures since it was excavated in Rome in 1506 and put on public display in the Vatican Museums, [2] where it remains today. The statue is very likely the same one that was praised in the highest terms ...

  9. Frank Stella, artist renowned for blurring the lines between ...

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    Frank Stella, a painter, sculptor and printmaker whose constantly evolving works are hailed as landmarks of the minimalist and post-painterly abstraction art movements, died Saturday at his home ...

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