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Cycladic Sculpture

by Mark Cartwright
published on 10 October 2012
The Cycladic islands of the Aegean were first inhabited by voyagers from Asia Minor around 3000 BCE and a certain prosperity was achieved thanks to the wealth of natural resources on the islands such as gold, silver, copper, obsidian and marble. This prosperity allowed for a flourishing of the arts and the uniqueness of Cycladic art is perhaps best illustrated... [continue reading]
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The ways in which Hellenistic rulers used sculpture to represent themselves

by James Lloyd
published on 19 July 2012
Overview Sculpture as visual Media to promote kingly qualities. Kings could place statues in prominent places. Disembodied originals, or Roman copies? The portrait bust was a later Roman invention, therefore statuettes and the few surviving bronzes help to show what the full figure may have looked like, or the ideal that they were hoping... [continue reading]

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  • 3000 BCE - 2000 BCE
    Distinctive minimalistic standing marble figurines are produced in the Cyclades.
  • c. 700 BCE
    Paros begins to export its Parian marble across the Greek world and it is widely used in temples and sculpture.
  • 650 BCE
    Earliest large scale Greek marble sculpture.
  • c. 550 BCE
    Oldest surviving sculpture of a winged Nike found on Delos.
  • 510 BCE - 370 BCE
    Greeks fighting Amazons becomes a popular subject of architectural sculpture across Greece.
  • c. 460 BCE
    The bronze Poseidon or Zeus statue (of Cape Artemesium) is sculpted.
  • 460 BCE - 450 BCE
    Two bronze Greek warriors are sculpted, the 'Bronzi Riace'.
  • 450 BCE - 440 BCE
    The bronze statue of the discus thrower (Diskobolos) by Myron is sculpted.
  • 438 BCE
    The cult statue of Athena Parthenos is dedicated in the Parthenon of Athens.
  • c. 425 BCE
    Kresilas sculpts the idealised portrait statue of Pericles which in antiquity was much copied as a bust.
  • 425 BCE - 420 BCE
    The Nike of Paionios is erected at Olympia to commemorate the Messenian and Naupaktian victory over Sparta at the battle of Sphakteria.
  • 340 BCE
    Praxiteles sculpts his Aphrodite, the first full female nude in Greek sculpture.
  • c. 330 BCE
    Statue of Hermes sculpted by Praxiteles.