Sculpture Timeline

• 3000 BCE - 2000 BCE
  Distinctive minimalistic standing marble figurines are produced in the Cyclades.
• c. 700 BCE
  Paros begins to export its Parian marble across the Greek world and it is widely used in temples and sculpture.
• 650 BCE
  Earliest large scale Greek marble sculpture.
• c. 550 BCE
  Oldest surviving sculpture of a winged Nike found on Delos.
• 510 BCE - 370 BCE
  Greeks fighting Amazons becomes a popular subject of architectural sculpture across Greece.
• c. 460 BCE
  The bronze Poseidon or Zeus statue (of Cape Artemesium) is sculpted.
• 460 BCE - 450 BCE
  Two bronze Greek warriors are sculpted, the 'Bronzi Riace'.
• 450 BCE - 440 BCE
  The bronze statue of the discus thrower (Diskobolos) by Myron is sculpted.
• 438 BCE
  The cult statue of Athena Parthenos is dedicated in the Parthenon of Athens.
• c. 425 BCE
  Kresilas sculpts the idealised portrait statue of Pericles which in antiquity was much copied as a bust.
• 424 BCE - 420 BCE
  The Nike of Paionios is erected at Olympia to commemorate the Messenian and Naupaktian victory over Sparta at the battle of Sphakteria.
• 340 BCE
  Praxiteles sculpts his Aphrodite, the first full female nude in Greek sculpture.
• c. 330 BCE
  Statue of Hermes sculpted by Praxiteles.