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Western sculpture - Ancient Greek | Britannica.com

Western sculpture - Ancient Greek: Greek art no doubt owed much indirectly to the Minoan-Mycenaean civilization (now known in its later stages to have been Greek), which disintegrated at the end of the 2nd millennium bc, partly under the impact of a series of invasions from the Balkans.

Sculpture - Wikipedia

One of the most common purposes of sculpture is in some form of association with religion. Cult images are common in many cultures, though they are often not the colossal statues of deities which characterized ancient Greek art, like the Statue of Zeus at Olympia.

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