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Architecture includes houses, religious buildings like temples and tombs, and public building like city walls, theaters, stadia, and stoas. | Architecture includes houses, religious buildings like temples and tombs, and public building like city walls, theaters, stadia, and stoas. | ||
| − | Sculpture includes small figurines and life-size | + | Sculpture includes small figurines and life-size statues, but also relief sculptures which were on the sides of buildings, and also tombstones. |
| − | We have very little Greek painting from the [[Classical period]]; most of what we have is from the [[Bronze Age]]. The paintings were painted on walls, as decoration for rooms, like | + | We have very little Greek painting from the [[Classical period]]; most of what we have is from the [[Bronze Age]]. The paintings were painted on walls, as decoration for rooms, like murals or wallpaper. On the other hand, we have a good deal of [[painted pottery]] from all periods of [[Greek history]] (down to the [[Hellenistic]]). |
== Modern day Greece == | == Modern day Greece == | ||
Revision as of 14:41, June 7, 2007
Ancient Greece
Ancient Greek art is mainly in four forms: architecture, sculpture, painting, and painted pottery.
Architecture includes houses, religious buildings like temples and tombs, and public building like city walls, theaters, stadia, and stoas.
Sculpture includes small figurines and life-size statues, but also relief sculptures which were on the sides of buildings, and also tombstones.
We have very little Greek painting from the Classical period; most of what we have is from the Bronze Age. The paintings were painted on walls, as decoration for rooms, like murals or wallpaper. On the other hand, we have a good deal of painted pottery from all periods of Greek history (down to the Hellenistic).
