Hellenistic Art (323-31 BCE)
This period of Greek culture replaced classical realism with greater solemnity and heroicism, an almost Baroque-like dramatization of subject matter.
Hellenistic art The art of the 3rd and 2nd centuries B.C. in Greece, characterized by its physical realism and emotional drama.
high contrast A maximum of contrast between light and dark.
Hellenistic Art 323-150 BC
Etruscan Art 6th - 5th century BC
Roman Art 509 BC - 337 AD
MIDDLE AGES 373 - 1453 AD (CE) ...
Hellenistic Art
Hellenistic Style of the last of three phases of ancient Greek art (300-100 B.C.), characterized by emotion, drama, and the interaction of sculptural forms with the surrounding space.
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In the Hellenistic art people sought to portray the inner emotions and details of everyday life instead of the heroic beauty.
These female figures are posed frontally, in the Sassanian manner, even though many of the motifs must ultimately have been derived from Hellenistic art.
Greco-Buddhist art is characterized by the strong idealistic realism of Hellenistic art and the first representations of the Buddha in human form, ...
best represented at Selinus, where a great variety of richly coloured figures have been found; there are also many fine heads of 5th century style, and later figures of Aphrodite, Eros and other deities imitating the later types of Hellenistic art.
Detail of a relief commemorating the Dacian Wars
showing a soldier loaded with mule loaded with booty.
Trajan's Column, Rome.
The natural setting of this scene is typical of Hellenistic art ...
gold, diameter 23 cm, Metropolitan Museum of Art, NY. A radial pattern of acorns and bees, each symbolizing the earth's "victual in plenty," as described by Hesiod. In the center is a large boss representing the omphalos. See Hellenistic art.
' As Greek treasures continued to arrive in Rome, for example after the sack of Corinth in 146 BC, Hellenistic art continued to exert a fascination on the more austere Romans.
 See also: Painting, Greek, Sculpture, Roman, Renaissance
  
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