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Here are twenty-five incredible works of ancient Greek art, twenty-five of the most famous statues of ancient Greece; where they originated, where and when they were discovered, and where they can be found today.
The Museum's collection of Greek and Roman art comprises more than 17,000 works ranging in date from the Neolithic period (ca. 4500 B.C.) to the time of the Roman emperor Constantine's conversion to Christianity in A.D. 312.
Many of the Greek statues well known from Roman marble copies were originally temple cult images, which in some cases, such as the Apollo Barberini, can be credibly identified. A very few actual originals survive, for example the bronze Piraeus Athena (2.35 metres high, including a helmet).
Inside the magnificent Doric temple stood the colossal gold-and-ivory statue of Athena made by the Greek sculptor Pheidias. The building itself was constructed entirely of marble and richly embellished with sculpture, some of the finest examples of the high Classical style of the mid-fifth century B.C.
25 sie 2013 · Roman Sculpture blended the idealised perfection of Classical Greek sculpture with a greater aspiration for realism. It also absorbed artistic preferences and styles from the East to create images in stone and bronze which rank among the finest works from antiquity.
15 mar 2018 · Ancient Greek sculpture is important because it was the first art that realistically portrayed the human form, albeit in an idealised way. Greek sculpture influenced Roman art and many other cultures thereafter.
The Department of Greece and Rome has one of the largest and most representative collections of ancient Mediterranean artefacts in the world. It shines a light on the history and culture of the ancient Mediterranean world between around 5000 BC and the end of the Western Roman Empire in the fourth century AD.
