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The sculpture of Greece is definitely one of the most influential artistic movements of any ancient culture. Even though Greece itself was influenced visibly in the beginning by strong trade routes, especially with Persia to the east and Egypt to the south, they quickly assimilated these methods and characteristics of the older civilizations and created within a few thousand years a lasting inspiration that fueled many other advances in culture and art. The Romans most notably copied Greek sculpture's perfect forms from the Classical and Hellenistic ages and it's through their assimilation of the Greek culture that most of our sculptures survive today. Later revivals of antiquities were given new life and power in the Renaissance of Italy. One is hard pressed to imagine what the Renaissance would have been without the influences of this ancient Greek art form.
The sculptural standard that the ancient Greeks created
has carried itself gallantly even into this modern day, changing
its form and meaning to meet the demands of new civilizations
and fluctuating cultures. We see this in our park
sculptures, our increasing image bytes and even into the new stylus
abstractions of modern art. The treatment of the form, especially
the human form, had its strongest foundation stones laid down
by the sculptures of ancient Greece.
CLASSICAL PERIOD 500 - 400 B.C.