Ancient Greece: The Beginnings of Garden Statue Design
Ancient Greece: The Beginnings of Garden Statue Design Even though most sculptors were paid by the temples to decorate the sophisticated columns and archways with renderings of the gods, as the period came to a close, it became more common for sculptors to portray average people as well because plenty of Greeks had started to think of their religion as superstitious rather than sacred. Portraiture became prevalent as well, and would be welcomed by the Romans when they conquered the Greeks, and sometimes well-off households would commission a depiction of their progenitors to be put inside their grand familial tombs. Over the years of The Greek Classical period, a time of artistic progress, the use of sculpture and many other art forms transformed, so it is erroneous to think that the arts delivered merely one purpose.