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Postby Lit » Sun Mar 29, 2009 10:16 pm

http://www.artic.edu/aic/collections/artwork/52731

The Art Institute of Chicago, Illinois, USA

Greek Macedon
Helmet, 4th century B.C.
Bronze
35.6 x 19.4 x 30.5 cm (14 x 7 5/8 x 12 in.)
Costa A. Pandaleon Endowment, 1978.297
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Postby Lit » Sun Mar 29, 2009 10:19 pm

The Tomb 2 (of Philip III, Alexander the Great's brother) at Vergina Greece and the Hellenic sunburst star.

http://www.utexas.edu/courses/ancientfi ... 7tomb2.jpg
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Postby Lit » Sun Mar 29, 2009 10:21 pm

http://www.getty.edu/art/gettyguide/art ... tobj=35555

The Getty museum

The Greeks, however, used strainers to filter out bits of grape skin and other sediment when serving wine. The form and decoration of this strainer were popular in the 300s B.C., especially in Macedonia in northern Greece.
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Postby Lit » Sun Mar 29, 2009 10:24 pm

http://www.dia.org/the_collection/new_a ... /mar07.asp

Detroit Institute of Arts

A Hellenizing influence, a result of Alexander the Great’s extension of the Greek empire into Asia, has been perceived in Gandharan sculpture, not least in the extraordinarily skilled rendering of high relief figures that recall those from the Parthenon reliefs.
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Postby Lit » Sun Mar 29, 2009 10:25 pm

Kelsey Museum of Archaeology

http://lw.lsa.umich.edu/kelsey/gallerie ... intro.html

Moreover, many ethnic groups influenced Egyptian life throughout the period covered by this exhibition (c. 3100 BCE-700 CE). The most conspicuous were the Macedonian Greeks and Romans who successively ruled Egypt after 332 BCE
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Postby Lit » Sun Mar 29, 2009 10:26 pm

Harvard University Art Museums

http://www.artmuseums.harvard.edu/exhib ... istic.html

Following the conquest of the Persian Empire by Alexander, Greek culture spread across Egypt, the Near East, and northern India, interacting with local traditions.
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Postby Lit » Sun Mar 29, 2009 10:28 pm

Lit wrote:Harvard University Art Museums

http://www.artmuseums.harvard.edu/exhib ... istic.html

Following the conquest of the Persian Empire by Alexander, Greek culture spread across Egypt, the Near East, and northern India, interacting with local traditions.


We are talking about Harvard Uni? Wow. The same Uni that President Obama went to? Must be a good University.


Tell us GR about that book of yours.

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