Greek

Greek Sculpture is the tradition of making statues and reliefs in the ancient Greek world, where images of gods, heroes, athletes and individuals served religious and civic life. Sculptors explored how a figure could stand, move and convey character through proportion, gesture and the arrangement of drapery. The Doryphoros and Discobolus offer different solutions to balance and bodily action, while temple sculpture placed narrative figures within an architectural design. Materials, colour and the intended setting also shaped each work's effect. Surviving originals, later copies and ancient written accounts provide complementary evidence, allowing lost works to be studied without treating every replica as an original.