jan 3, 410 BC - Grave Stele of Hegeso

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Marble and paint
Kallimachos
-End of Hugh classical movement
-Most great sculptors at the time were working on the Parthenon and other surrounding buildings on the Acropolis.
-Funeral sculptures begin to rise again (grave marker of one sort)
-Stele- upright slave gravestone with relief sculpture
-Most works were for public places, but resurgence of private sculptures begins again and mostly for headstones much like the kouros

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