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Greek Sculpture presents a chronological overview of the plastic and glyptic art forms in the ancient Greek world from the emergence of life-sized marble statuary at the end of the seventh century BC to the appropriation of Greek sculptural traditions by Rome in the first two centuries AD.* Compares the evolution of Greek sculpture over the centuries to works of contemporaneous Mediterranean civilizations* Emphasizes looking closely at the stylistic features of Greek sculpture, illustrating these observations where possible with original works rather than copies* Places the remarkable progress of stylistic changes that took place in Greek sculpture within a broader social and historical context* Facilitates an understanding of why Greek monuments look the way they do and what ideas they were capable of expressing* Focuses on the most recent interpretations of Greek sculptural works while considering the fragile and fragmentary evidence uncovered

Greek Sculpture

PrefaceCHAPTER 1 - Beginnings and Before: Greek Sculpture in the Iron Age (ca.1000-600)BOX - Uses of Sculpture in Ancient GreeceCHAPTER 2 - The Search for Order: Sculptural Schemata and Regional Styles (ca. 600-550)BOX - Marble, the Monumental, and Egypt: Materials and ProcessesCHAPTER 3. Free-Standing Sculpture in the Later Sixth Century: Style and Penhellenism (ca. 550-500):BOX - Chronology and HerodotusCHAPTER 4. Sixth Century Architectural SculptureBOX - The Greek Architectural Orders and VitruviusCHAPTER 5. The Change to Classical: Democratic Athens and the Persian Conflict (ca. 500-460)BOX - Bronze Casting Techniques - "Copies and Originals"CHAPTER 6. The Temple of Zeus at Olympia: Panhellenism and the Early Classical (ca. 470-450)BOX - Literary Sources I - PausaniasCHAPTER 7. Classical Moment I: The Parthenon, Pericles, and the Power of Persuasion (ca. 450-430)BOX - The Parthenon Marbles and the Acropolis MuseumCHAPTER 8. Classical Moment II: Sculptors and Statuary in the Mid-Fifth CenturyBOX - Literary Sources II - Ancient Art HistoriesCHAPTER 9. Unfinished Business: Pericles' Programs and the Archidamian War (ca. 430-420)BOX - The Evidence of InscriptionsCHAPTER 10. An Attic Tragedy: The Fall of Athens and The Transition to Late Classical (ca. 420-390)BOX - Painting and PerceptualismCHAPTER 11. Idealism and Individuality I: Late Classical Architectural Sculpture(ca. 390-330)BOX - Itinerant Artists and Regional SchoolsCHAPTER 12. Idealism and Individuality II: Late Classical Statuary and Relief Sculpture (ca. 390-330)BOX - The Role of the SculptorCHAPTER 13. Sculpture in Hellenistic Greece I: The Rise of Macedon and the Kingdoms of the Diadochs (ca. 330-200)BOX - The Nike of Samothrace and Hellenistic ChronologyCHAPTER 14. Sculpture in Hellenistic Greece II: Greek Styles and Roman Taste (ca. 200-50)BOX - Ars revixit, Hellenistic Classicism, and Roman Patronage