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Ancient Greece Tours
Ancient Greece Tours
Ancient Greece Tours
Ancient Greece Tours
Ancient Greece Tours
Ancient Greece Tours
Ancient Greece Tours
Ancient Greece Tours
Ancient Greece Tours
Ancient Greece Tours
Ancient Greece Tours
Ancient Greece Tours
Ancient Greece Tours
Ancient Greece Tours
Ancient Greece Tours
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Ancient Greek sculpture is the sculpture of ancient Greece. Modern scholarship identifies three major stages in monumental sculpture. At all periods there were great numbers of Greek terracotta figurines and small sculptures in metal and other materials. The Greeks decided very early on that the human form was the most important subject for artistic endeavour. Seeing their gods as having human form, there was little distinction between the sacred and the secular in art—the human body was both secular and sacred. A male nude of Apollo or Heracles had only slight differences in treatment to one of that year's Olympic boxing champion. The statue, originally single but by the Hellenistic period often in groups was the dominant form, though reliefs, often so high that they were almost free-standing, were also important.
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