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... century BC until probably the 1st cen- tury BC . To define it more precisely ... 3rd and 2nd centuries BC their courts commissioned craftsmen from far and ... 3rd century and then to Greece and beyond . By 146 BC Greece was a Roman ...
... century BC until probably the 1st cen- tury BC . To define it more precisely ... 3rd and 2nd centuries BC their courts commissioned craftsmen from far and ... 3rd century and then to Greece and beyond . By 146 BC Greece was a Roman ...
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... 3rd century Christians in the Roman Empire had begun to borrow the art forms of their pagan contemporaries for the decoration of meeting - rooms ( churches ) and tombs . Such patronage of the arts received a great impetus in 312 when ...
... 3rd century Christians in the Roman Empire had begun to borrow the art forms of their pagan contemporaries for the decoration of meeting - rooms ( churches ) and tombs . Such patronage of the arts received a great impetus in 312 when ...
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... third quarter of the 3rd century . Apart from a set of family portrait busts , there are five sym- bolic figures , freestanding , and cut in a lively , Hellenistic style . A spectator might identify one figure as a river god , but the ...
... third quarter of the 3rd century . Apart from a set of family portrait busts , there are five sym- bolic figures , freestanding , and cut in a lively , Hellenistic style . A spectator might identify one figure as a river god , but the ...
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