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Why was classical Greek sculptures considered unrealistic?
Greek sculptures are realistic in form, that means: They always look like whatever the sculpture is supposed to portrait (ex.: if it's an sculpture of a human figure, it looks like a human figure, etc...) Now, a more accurate description of Greek Sculptures would be that they are "Idealistic. Greek sculptures always portrayed men and women in a very idealist way. All men were very fit, with bulging muscles and very strong. All women were extremely beautiful and graceful.
How did greek sculptures differ from those of Egyptian sculptures and Roman sculptures?
Greek statues were naturalistic, while the Egyptian ones were stylised. Roman sculpture in the Republican period was highly realistic portraiture (busts). In the period of rule by emperors the Romans adopted full bodied statues and they were modelled on the Hellenistic sculpture of the Greeks.
How is the philosophy of humanism reflected in Donatello and sculpture David?
it's style was influenced by ancient Greek and Roman sculptures
Why do marble statues have no arms?
Very old statues usually get a lot of rough handling and they break off. The old classic look of statues with broken arms has become a sort of symbol for classic art and so is often recreated in more recent statues. But the originals did have arms! A lot of people like the esthetic look of the broken arms and consider the form of the bust or torso to be the perfect body form, and arms become a distraction to them.
Which cultures seems to have had the greatest influence on Archaic Greek sculpture?
There is a strong Egyptian bakground.
