Art History - Winged Victory of Samothrace

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HISTORY1
Ancient art usually explains the culture and description of the ancient society. This
essay is going to compare the art history of Greek and Roman. In around 300 BC the ancient
history came into notice. The Ancient Greek art has a unique identity and stands out among
all the other ancient cultures. The main thing that attracts the most is the artistic development
of idealized but naturalistic depictions of the human structure or body; from which most of
them are nude male figures and mainly describe the innovation of different type. Not all the
sculptures or the classical statues survive today (Havelock, 2018). The Stone statues had
found to be broken, and the metal arts were often melted for reusing. However, many of the
Greek sculptors for example, Polykleitos and Phidias of the 5th century and Lysippos,
Praxiteles and Skopas of the 4th century still exist today and provides deep knowledge about
the artistic culture of the Greece people. Below, there is an example of such a Greek art,
(Winged Victory of Samothrace)
At the end of 200 B.C, a marble sculpture describing the Greek goddess Nike was developed;
the art got famous by the name “Winged Victory of Samothrace”: still exist as the greatest
masterpiece today. Currently it is being displayed at the Louvre and it holds the honour of the