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Bookmark or Share- The Art of Classical Greece (ca. 480–323 B.C.)Seán Hemingway. Department of Greek and Roman Art, The Metropolitan Museum of Art. January 2008. After the defeat of the Persians in 479 B.C., Athens dominated Greece politically, economically, and culturally.
- Greek and Roman Art | The Metropolitan Museum of ArtThe Museum's collection of Greek and Roman art comprises more than thirty thousand 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. It includes the art of many cultures and is among the most comprehensive in North America.
- Ancient Greek Art - Facts, Architecture & Projects | HISTORYAncient Greek Art. Updated: June 23, 2023 | Original: May 17, 2010. In around 450 B.C., the Athenian general Pericles tried to consolidate his power by using public money, the dues paid to...
- Egyptian art and architecture | History, Characteristics, & FactsEgyptian art and architecture, the ancient architectural monuments, sculptures, paintings, and applied crafts produced mainly during the dynastic periods of the first three millennia bce in the Nile valley regions of Egypt and Nubia.
- Ancient Near Eastern Art | The Metropolitan Museum of ArtThe Met's Department of Ancient Near Eastern Art cares for approximately 7,000 works ranging in date from the eighth millennium B.C. through the centuries just beyond the emergence of Islam in the seventh century A.D. Objects in the collection were created by people in the area that today comprises Iraq, Iran, Turkey, Syria, the Eastern Mediterr...
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