Hellenistic period

323 BCE – 30 BCE

Europe Asia Africa

Greek art after the conquests of Alexander the Great: dramatic, full of emotion and theatrical movement — like the Nike of Samothrace or the Laocoön Group.

Selected works

Venus de Milo c. 140 BCE

Laocoön Group c. 27 BCE – 68 CE (disputed)

Fragment of a Portrait Statue of a Man 2nd century