ARCHITECTURAL SCULPTURE Archaism saw the advent of the kouros and the kore, themes which, despite subsequent stylistic evolution, dominated ...

THE ARCHAIC PERIOD As recently as forty years ago, when scholars were discussing the Minoan and Mycenaean civilizations established in Gree...

HOW STATUES WERE USED If every work of sculpture was the result of a commission, either public or private, it was because the patron who co...

ART AND CRAFTSMANSHIP Although the texts and the monuments which have survived give us a full idea of the materials used in sculpture, they ...

STATUARY AND RELIEF The single modern word sculpture in fact embraces two different arts; similarly, in ancient Greek, words of the ,glyphei...

GREEK ART BACKGROUND TO THE STUDY OF GREEK SCULPTURE Since the eighteenth century, Greek sculpture has been the object of something akin to ...