(Hellenistic Greek Art [continued (10))[– Time of Change][28th January 1991]

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‘Over a wide area the Hellenistic period* was a time of change. Artists and craftsmen lived and worked in a time of new political organisations, new cultural contacts, and new economic opportunities, a world that inevitably conditioned their products from the most elaborate and costly to the smallest and most humble. The individual** was now all-important; monarchs required materials manifestations of their power, while all classes strove to improve their living standards, not least wealthy merchants *** who wished to live with every luxury money could buy. Everywhere people displayed a fresh, enthusiastic interest in human life,**** particularly in its more picturesque aspects; even traditional religious ideas and mythological themes were reinterpreted in personal terms.# Such an approach far outlasted the chronological limits of the Hellenistic period; its influence on subsequent art, especially Roman[,] was both extensive and profound.’

– E[ncylopaedia of] V[isual] A[rt]1:164

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