Portrait head Alexander the Great, bust as a museum replica, artificial casting

Classical culture (5th and 4th centuries BC)

The beginning of the Greek classic falls into the time of action of the great statesman Pericles, among which Athens is the focus of cultural life and artistic work in ancient Greece.

Classic architecture refined the shapes and proportions for perfection. The zeust temple of Olympia, which was created in Parthenon on the Acropolis of Athens and other important temple buildings.

The time of strict style began in plastic. The rigid forms of earlier times were blown up, the human body was studied anatomically. The top performance of the strict style are, among other things, the Delphi wagon driver and Poseidon from Cape Artemision, which fishermen have recovered from the sea.

Another increase brought the high classic. Sculptures such as Myron, Phidias and Polyklet created sculptures that influence sculptor art until our time. (Discus thrower, Athena-Marsyas group, the Heroen of Riace, UA)

in the 4th century prevailed. Praxiteles and Lysipp determined the art of time. Sculptures such as Hermes with the dyonis boys, pouring Satyr and above all the Aphrodite of Knidos are wonderful examples of the art of art of the Greek classic.