This essay assignment focuses on your ability to understand and explain the different stylistic changes of Greek and Roman sculpture

This essay assignment focuses on your ability to understand and explain the different stylistic changes of Greek and Roman sculpture (and the cultural ideals that define them), how one influenced the other, and the differences between them.

Using the images provided (and properly ID’d), discuss the 4 major stylistic changes of Classical Greek Sculpture beginning with the Archaic style followed by the Early Classical, High Classical and Late Classical (also called Hellenistic) eras. Be sure to put each sculpture within its proper era.

Next, again using images provided, discuss Ancient Roman sculpture within the context of its cultural ideals and compare/contrast those with Ancient Greek Culture.

Your essay should be no less than 450 words with a maximum of ~1,000 words. Use your very best prose, read the essay out loud for errors – spelling and grammar count

Here are your images – They are NOT in the correct order — Be sure to use all six!

Kouros Statue

Archaic Gree

Roman Double Portrait of Gratidia M.L. Chrite and M. GratidiusLibanus.

Late 1st century BCE.

Kritios Boy

Early Greek Classical

Riace Warriors, bronze

Greek High Classical

Portrait Sculpture of Emperor Constantine,

Late Roman Era

The Laocoon Group [Roman Copy, marble]

Hellenistic Greek (Late Greek Classical)

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Ancient Greek sculpture

Ancient Greek sculpture entails the early sculptures practiced by artists during the ancient Greece period. According to modern scholarship, they identified the four major stages under which this development of sculptures took place. Their art work was mainly developed on the basis of depicting; the rulers of the ancient Greece, mythology and battles. Marble or bronze were the most common type of materials for major works adopted by the artists in the period as early as the 5^th century. In accordance to current thoughts, earliest incarnation……………….

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