Early greek sculpture was most often in bronze and porous limestone but whilst bronze seems never to have gone out of fashion the stone of choice would become marble.
Female greek marble statues.
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These are still symbols of how women portrayed as sex objects while those sculptures only showed women s intimate parts while on the other hand men sculptures showed their masculinity.
Marble statue of a woman.
A very few actual originals survive for example the bronze piraeus athena 2 35 metres high including a helmet.
It is currently displayed at louvre and is among the most celebrated original statues in the world.
A 200 b c marble sculpture depicting the greek goddess nike the winged victory of samothrace is considered today as the greatest masterpiece of hellenistic sculpture.
Women have a big share among the greek sculptures whether ordinary women and figures or famous goddesses that had big influence back then such as.
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The best was from naxos close grained and sparkling parian from paros with a rougher grain and more translucent and pentelic near athens more opaque and which turned a soft honey colour with age due to its iron content.