- A Lycian king. From the Mausoleum
at Halicarnassos. About 350 BC
Cast No. B097
In Anatolia, now dominated by Persia, Greek sculptors still worked for the hellenized princes, in homeland styles, as on the Mausoleum of Halicarnassus, or encouraging local schools, as in Lycia. The Western Greeks are less active, though prosperous, and especially develop 'acrolithic' statues, heads and flesh parts in the scarce or imported marble, the rest in cheaper material, stone or wood.
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Frieze from a grave precinct at Trysa (Lycia).
Early 4th century BC
Cast No. A120c
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Head of goddess; S. Italy. About 470 BC
Cast No. B082
'The 4th century' is not a style as the Classical of the 5th century had been, and in some respects the sculpture seems to be marking time before dramatic development in the following period. Pure realism is in its way an end in itself and any development from it has to abandon some of its basic principles.